Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions
Design
A course by Mary Cagnin , Illustrator
About the video: Design
Overview
“With the best study we did in the previous class selected, we will now begin to shape and define the design that will be our final project.”
In this video lesson Mary Cagnin addresses the topic: Design, 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
“Design It's time to finally get your hands dirty and start making our design. There's a feature that I really enjoy using when I'm doing a drawing, especially a portrait, which is to do the horizontal inversion of the image, to see if inverted it is proportional, and make some corrections, because oftentimes, while we are drawing, we are looking for a long time at the same image, invert makes us see some proportion errors that we weren't seeing before. I take the image and give it Control T, or Transform, and flip it horizontally. Here, I'm using the flower reference itself to draw those pe...”
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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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