Character Painting with Gouache and Colored Pencils
Color Studies
A course by Sarah Walsh , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Color Studies
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you how to create color studies, and I'll discuss personal preferences and color theory ideas.”
In this video lesson Sarah Walsh addresses the topic: Color Studies, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Painting with Gouache and Colored Pencils. Channel your inner magic and bring meaningful characters to life with gouache paint, colored pencils, and digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Color Studies In our last lesson, we did some basic painting and colored pencil techniques. In this lesson, we'll go over super basic color theory. It's always good to get a refresher. You pick up new things the second or the third time around. There are three basic colors. They're called primary colors and there's blue, red, and yellow. The insane thing about that is none of those colors can be made by mixing. They are the default and the foundation of all other colors. There's a primary color wheel and that's the three colors. There are secondary colors. That's green, orange, and purple...”
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Course summary for: Character Painting with Gouache and Colored Pencils
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Character Design, Colored Pencil Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Gouache Painting, Sketching

Sarah Walsh
A course by Sarah Walsh
Sarah Walsh is an artist and illustrator with over 20 years of experience. She completed a BFA in graphic design in New York, where she grew up, and went on to work as an in-house designer and illustrator at Hallmark Cards before starting her freelance career.
Since then, Sarah has collaborated with brands like PBS, The Washington Post The Guardian, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Crate & Barrel. She also runs and creates artwork for Tigersheep Friends, an illustration-based shop that she founded in collaboration with a fellow illustrator. Sarah works with a variety of materials, from gouache to pencil, and has experience in artistic mediums from pattern design and hand lettering to home decor design. She is known for her playful style and shares her work with over 70K followers on Instagram.
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