Fairy-Tale Illustration with Watercolors
Values and Color Selection
A course by Dolle Étoile , Illustrator
About the video: Values and Color Selection
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn the importance of applying values (white, black, and grayscale) to a part. I will also teach you how to select harmonic colors. ”
In this video lesson Dolle Étoile addresses the topic: Values and Color Selection, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Watercolors. Learn fundamental watercolor techniques to bring fantastical worlds to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“Values and color selection In this lesson I will tell you about the importance of applying the values to our piece before applying the color. This is so that the planes can be separated and can be distinguished with contrast. With the sketch already defined and clear, we can select our values And then the colors. A tip: we have to think about our image in black and white to be able to work it in color. This is because the use of values makes it easier to choose the lights and shadows. Let's put this into practice. Come with me to see it. In color there are three important characteristics: h...”
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Course summary for: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Watercolors
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Dolle Étoile
A course by Dolle Étoile
Karla Rodríguez, better known as Miss Étoile or Dolle Étoile, is an illustrator who is inspired in her creations by the aesthetics of fairy tales and porcelain dolls. She studied digital graphic design at the International University of the Californias in Tijuana, although she later specialized in drawing and illustration. She currently works as a freelancer and has her own brand of products and accessories bearing her illustrations.
Her work is in countless publications, in several children's stories by Write Brain Books, USA, and 21 Draw, Sweden, in the fantasy art books The Enchanted Forest and The Elven Path by Black Fox Press, UK, and many others. She has exhibited collectively and on her own at Gallery Nucleus, Haven Gallery, Casa de la Cultura in Mexicali, Galería José María Velasco, Soumaya, and Casa de la Cultura de Playas.
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