Illustration with Markers: Find Your Style
Learning Values and Blending
A course by Caio Yo , Illustrator
About the video: Learning Values and Blending
Overview
“Now I'm going to explain what "values" are when we talk about colors and also teach the basic technique of this course: Blending! ”
In this video lesson Caio Yo addresses the topic: Learning Values and Blending, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration with Markers: Find Your Style. Develop your own artistic language using markers to play with volume, color, and texture.
Partial transcription of the video
“Learning values and blending In this lesson, we are going to talk about values. Value is basically how light or dark a color is. It is important to know what values are and how to apply them at work, because a job without variation of values does not convey any sense of three-dimensionality. Here is work in its early stages. While I still don't put more light and dark variation, the drawing doesn't jump out of the sheet much, it's still very flat. While this other one is finished, it looks more three-dimensional. If, on the one hand, colors are responsible by the sensory and emotional aspec...”
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Course summary for: Illustration with Markers: Find Your Style
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Category
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Areas
Color Theory, Comic, Painting, Traditional illustration

Caio Yo
A course by Caio Yo
Caio Yo is a Brazilian illustrator and comic artist based in the state of São Paulo. Since starting his artistic career in 2008, he’s illustrated textbooks, children's books, and advertising pieces, all characterized by influences rooted in manga, printmaking, and classical illustration. He’s participated in collective illustration and comics exhibitions around the world, including Norway, Iran, Japan, and the United States.
He currently works creating art for video game studios, advertising agencies, and animation and character design projects, but his true passion lies in his personal illustrations.
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