Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters
Background
A course by Raúl Allén , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Background
Overview
“Next, I'll show you how to work on the background of one of the images in the project by setting the aesthetic for the other two figures. To do this, you have to use the mood board references looking for the brushes that most convey the sensations you want to convey. I will talk to you about how to make the background not steal the limelight from the figure, making it act more like a frame than a stage. Finally, I will integrate the character and the figure by making color adjustments and applying some effects that the program allows us. ”
In this video lesson Raúl Allén addresses the topic: Background, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters. Discover how to draw urban characters using reference materials while exploring and developing your own personal style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Money In this lesson we will advance our image, now working the background. For the backgrounds, we'll try to do something a little more abstract so that it does not detract from the figure. The backgrounds will help unite our three images. I will choose some brushes a little more pictorial, with much more stroke, to give it that point of abstraction. I have here my mood board and I want to use elements, like graffiti, flatter colors and some sparkle maybe. I'll do some brushstrokes first, to see how the brush size works. For this, I like to leave the image quite reduced to get a general id...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters
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Character Design, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration
Raúl Allén
A course by Raúl Allén
Raúl Allen is an illustrator and comic artist from Valladolid, Spain, with a long-standing career in the industry. He studied fine art in Salamanca and later moved to Boston where he specialized in illustration and design. Raúl has worked on comics starring iconic characters such as Wonder Woman, Secret Avengers, Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist, and with writers including Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Warren Ellis, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, Vita Ayala, and Robert Venditti.
He has also collaborated with big names like Marvel, DC, Valiant, and Boom; on publications like The New York Times, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and Billboard Magazine; as well as adidas, Tiempo BBDO, CHINA, Vitruvio Leo Burnett, and many more in the advertising sector.
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