Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions
Finalization
A course by Mary Cagnin , Illustrator
About the video: Finalization
Overview
“In this class, we will finish the design we have chosen by fixing some details and smoothing the strokes with different colors. ”
In this video lesson Mary Cagnin addresses the topic: Finalization, 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
“finalization It's time to make the final art of your illustration. Come on? Now to start the finalization, I'll get the Draft layers and I will decrease the Fill or Opacity just so we can see the traces underneath time to clean up these traits for the final version. I'm going to slow down a little here to increase the negative area of the image, in this case, here's the background. To give a little more weight to this image here. We increase the negative space of the image a little since in all this area here on the right side and the upper left side we already have a filling, so we give a ...”
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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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