Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions
Initial Studies
A course by Mary Cagnin , Illustrator
About the video: Initial Studies
Overview
“In this class, I will test some compositions and color palette to use in my project. In the end, I will choose the best study to develop.”
In this video lesson Mary Cagnin addresses the topic: Initial Studies, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions. Learn to combine digital art and hand-drawn textures to create an impactful illustration that tells an original story.
Partial transcription of the video
“initial studies It's time to test composition, pose, colors, that is, to carry out the initial studies of our project. As I mentioned to you, this collage we made with the references it's just a primary collage, we will use it as a reference for our initial studies. So, let's explore some different poses a little bit and some different compositions, using as a base, but it's just a starting point, because we can explore some characteristics of the character, we don't need to take the characteristics of the photos literally and the images that we are putting here. The idea is to explore and ...”
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Course summary for: Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Design, Digital Painting, Narrative, Traditional illustration

Mary Cagnin
A course by Mary Cagnin
Mariana Cagnin studied visual arts at São Paulo State University (UNESP) and has been an illustrator and comic artist for over a decade. She has illustrated books and magazines for publishing houses including Globo, Abril, and MOL and is also the author of the Vidas Imperfeitas comics as well as the award-winning Black Silence and Bittersweet. Since 2013, she has been creating her own social media content and has a YouTube channel with over 300K subscribers to date.
She has also given in-person and online courses for a variety of Brazilian institutions, including the private nonprofit SESC and arts centers, in which she shared her own teaching methods. In 2017, she received a Globo award for best theme design (Casa & Jardim) and was invited by the Brazilian embassy to participate in the Gothenburg Book Fair in Sweden.
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