Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination
Adding Textures 2
A course by Marcos Chin , Illustrator
About the video: Adding Textures 2
Overview
“And we're almost done! Next, I'll finish adding some texture to infuse more life into my character. ”
In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: Adding Textures 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination. Learn how to transform simple shapes into engaging narrative illustrations featuring characters full of color and personality.
Partial transcription of the video
“Adding Textures I'll keep doing it in a couple of more places. I don't go overboard. I'll duplicate this and use this purple... underneath her chin just a little bit. This part of my process is to enhance it. If you think of it in terms of cooking, it's adding the final details. Maybe the decoration, the flourishes. This is what I'm doing, I'm adding the flourishes. I'm done using this Charcoal and its texture. I'll collapse these into one layer and I'll turn off the Charcoal and start to introduce another layer which is the Cheeks. I call them cheeks for obvious reasons because I want thes...”
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Course summary for: Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination
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Category
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Software
Procreate -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Traditional illustration

Marcos Chin
A course by Marcos Chin
Marcos Chin is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared on surface and wall designs, on book and CD covers, advertisements, fashion catalogs, and magazines. He has worked with companies such as MTA Arts for Transit, Neiman Marcus, Fiat, Budweiser, Time, Rolling Stone Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times.
Marcos has given lectures and workshops throughout the US and abroad. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches Illustration at the School of Visual Arts.
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