Digital Illustration: When Color Meets Imagination
Choosing a Color Palette
A course by Hedof , Illustrator
About the video: Choosing a Color Palette
Overview
“In this lesson, we'll pick the colors for our project. No inspiration? No problem! I'll show you a few tips and tricks. This part is mostly a fun exercise, and we can use some tools in Photoshop to quickly find our color scheme.”
In this video lesson Hedof addresses the topic: Choosing a Color Palette, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration: When Color Meets Imagination. Learn to improve your creative workflow and design vibrant illustrations that capture your unique style using Photoshop and Illustrator .
Partial transcription of the video
“ Choosing a Color Palette After the color theory, I'll show you a few tips and tricks in this lesson about picking a color. I'll usually pick the color in Photoshop because it's easier for me to slide those bars and get into the right zone of the coloring. Let's get started. Depending on the purpose of the illustration, I create subcategories of the colors in Photoshop and I slide the colors towards the spectrum. For example, if I stumble across an interesting color combination on my phone or in real life, I take a picture or save that image from Instagram or whatever to my phone and I wil...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration: When Color Meets Imagination
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

Hedof
A course by Hedof
Rick Berkelmans is an illustrator from The Netherlands. He always considered himself creative and, after impressing his classmates with a drawing of a dinosaur at just seven years old, he knew he wanted to pursue a career that involved illustrating. Rick went on to study at art school where he discovered a love for screen printing that kick-started his career. His work soon began getting noticed online and in galleries, leading to his first commissions.
Since then, Rick has established his own studio, Hedof, and worked on illustrations for apps, magazines, advertising campaigns, and packaging. He has also painted large-scale murals around the world. Rick’s clients include Nike, The New York Times , Nickelodeon, IKEA, Samsung, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Lotte World Mall, Nestlé, Green Man Festival, Red Bull, PlayStation, Snapchat, YouTube, WeTransfer, Google, and Facebook. He also shares his work with over 90K followers on Instagram.
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