Editorial Illustration of Characters in Gouache
Practicing with the gouache
A course by Julia Bereciartu , Illustrator
About the video: Practicing with the gouache
Overview
“In this lesson, you will practice with your gouache and brushes so that you feel confident enough to tackle your final project. I will give you tricks to mix colors and control the opacity of the paint.”
In this video lesson Julia Bereciartu addresses the topic: Practicing with the gouache, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Illustration of Characters in Gouache. Learn how to create an editorial illustration full of life and texture using gouache paint, from the initial planning to getting it printed .
Partial transcription of the video
“Practicing with the gouache In this lesson, you will practice with gouache. I will teach you some tricks so that you learn to control the paint and that the painting does not control you. The key to painting with gouache is controlling its opacity. As I said before, it is a very versatile paint, because you can use it diluted like watercolor or completely dense and in a very graphic way, even with a dry brush. That is why I say that it is super versatile, because it is used in both ways, even combine lighter layers with denser layers. The crucial thing is that you learn to know what the poi...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration of Characters in Gouache
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Gouache Painting, Traditional illustration
Julia Bereciartu
A course by Julia Bereciartu
Julia Bereciartu is an illustrator from San Sebastián, Spain, who now lives in Madrid. She specializes in editorial illustration creating artwork for both book covers and picturebooks. She has also done work in advertising and merchandising as well as for toys.
Over the course of her career, she has had the opportunity to work with publishing companies from the United State and United Kingdom, such as Quarto Books, Bloomsbury, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Penguin Kids, Abrams, Simon & Schuster, and Little Brown, as well as companies like Google, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon. She has also done illustrations for the publishing companies Alfaguara, SM, and Astronave in Spain.
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