Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories
Details, Highlights and Shadows
A course by Mojo Wang , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Details, Highlights and Shadows
Overview
“The most fun and time-consuming part has finally arrived! We can now start adding details and finessing the illustration. I will show you how to use a "Clipping Mask" and the "Blending Mode" to add value, shading and lighting to the illustration. Layer by layer, step by step, we'll flesh out the skeleton.”
In this video lesson Mojo Wang addresses the topic: Details, Highlights and Shadows, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories. Learn to transform narratives into meaningful digital art inspired by everyday life through color, line work, layers, and light.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Details, Highlights and Shadows In the last lesson, I showed you how to add flat colors and layers. In this lesson, I'll show you how to add details, highlights, and shadows to your illustration. Now let's go to our digital canvas here. Look at Photoshop on the iPad. This is what we have from the last lesson. Here I'll demonstrate how to add details to the flat color. We're using the same technique I introduced in the last lesson except for one little thing. Let's create a new layer. Let's see. Here is the Mask, flat color layer. We'll add a new layer. Let's call it number 1. I'm using th...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration
Mojo Wang
A course by Mojo Wang
Mojo Wang is a self-taught illustrator from China who is currently based in New York City. He started his career as a freelancer before working as a photo editor at ELLEMEN magazine in China. Yearning for more, he moved to New York to study a fine arts masters at SVA, where he redefined his style and learned the value of storytelling through images. Since then, he’s continued to hone his skills and experiment with techniques to grow as an artist, while striking a balance between making a living and enjoying his craft.
The bold colors, sharp linework, and engaging messages in his illustrations have led him to work with major brands like Nike and Kiehl's, as well as a variety of magazines including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Economist, Billboard Magazine, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal. He has also received multiple awards from the Society of Illustrators and the AI-AP.
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