Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters
Color 2
A course by Raúl Allén , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Color 2
Overview
“Next, I'll add some graphic flat shadows keeping in mind where the direction of the light falls on the character. I will also work the edges of the shadows to create transitions between the tones and I will give them a few touches of light as visual accents.”
In this video lesson Raúl Allén addresses the topic: Color 2, 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
“Colour When adding highlights and shadows, decide where your light source is. I will not do a very exaggerated rendering either, I just want to give it a little more volume. With which, I will give it a basic and very graphic shadow without gradients and then I'll give it some highlights. I will keep reordering all my layers leaving them in clipping mask and the shadow layer I will add it in the same way, creating a clipping mask. If we are already convinced by the colors, we could unite them all. I won't now because, later, the fund can ask us for changes. You should have a little more ord...”
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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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