Playful Animal Illustration with Photoshop
Setting up Your Workspace
A course by Gareth Lucas , Illustrator
About the video: Setting up Your Workspace
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll introduce you to Photoshop, show you how to set up and download brushes, and how to get a colour palette ready.”
In this video lesson Gareth Lucas addresses the topic: Setting up Your Workspace, which is part of the Domestika online course: Playful Animal Illustration with Photoshop. Explore digital tools to create lively works of art filled with texture, patterns, and color.
Partial transcription of the video
“Setting up Your Workspace In this lesson, I'll show you how I like to set up my Photoshop workspace. I'll also show you how you can download many different brushes. We'll also talk about how I set up a colour palette ready for our artwork. I've been using Photoshop for about 10 years now and over that time I've developed a workspace that works for me. Let's dive into this lesson now and I'll show you how I like to set up Photoshop. In this lesson, we'll talk a little bit about Photoshop and setting up your workspace. I'll show you how I like to have my workspace and there may be some things...”
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Course summary for: Playful Animal Illustration with Photoshop
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Category
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Gareth Lucas
A course by Gareth Lucas
Gareth Lucas is a freelance illustrator from Essex, England. As a child, he loved to draw and eventually went on to study illustration at Brighton University. After graduating, Gareth worked on everything from label designs to anthology illustrations before going back to university to study for an MA in illustration. During that time, he taught graphic design alongside his studies and began experimenting with digital tools which allowed him to take his freelance career full-time in 2014.
Since then, Gareth has worked with clients including Abrams Books, Penguin, Birdseye, and Simon and Schuster. He also shares his illustrations with over 100K followers on Instagram.
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