Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop
Adding Color
A course by Eric Castleman , Children's Book Illustrator
About the video: Adding Color
Overview
“Here I will teach you to use the gradient tool to create a nice skyline as well as the color key I will be painting in. You will also learn how to work with the skies by applying the first texture.”
In this video lesson Eric Castleman addresses the topic: Adding Color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop. Recreate traditional painting techniques with digital tools by exploring colors and textures to make vibrant illustrations for children’s books.
Partial transcription of the video
“Adding Color In this lesson, I'll start talking about how I choose and borrow colors and how I create color schemes, as well as the tools I use to create a nice background. Let's get started. I'll talk a bit about how I choose my colors. This is a topic that I am passionate about. When I decided to study and become an illustrator, I put understanding color at the bottom of the of things I needed. I had perspective, I wanted to learn anatomy, how to design, and all these things. Then, when I got those things under control, I went to paint it and I ruined it. I couldn't figure out why my pain...”
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Course summary for: Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Eric Castleman
A course by Eric Castleman
Eric Castleman is a children’s book illustrator living in Montana who specializes in traditional painting techniques with digital tools. His interest in illustration started as a child and, having an artist for a brother and a sister interested in crafts, he was always creative growing up. He spent time drawing during school but didn’t consider art as a career until his wife, a painter, bought him a book on how to build a business from his passion.
Since then, Eric has worked for Highlights magazine, and The Monster Project, and has been featured by Kidlit411, Society of Visual Storytelling, and multiple art galleries. He works primarily in mixed media, integrating unique textures and light into his work.
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