Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop
Applying Textures
A course by Eric Castleman , Children's Book Illustrator
About the video: Applying Textures
Overview
“Now I will start by incorporating textures references that I collected previously. ”
In this video lesson Eric Castleman addresses the topic: Applying Textures, 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
“Applying Textures I'm happy with the colors, let's talk about textures. In this lesson, I'll show you how I make it look accidental. I'll show you all the different tools to make it look like it's a part of the canvas. Let's get started. We're at the place where I want to add our main stain, the main watercolor texture, or any texture that you want in your painting. To me, this is vital to my work. It is what gets me to disconnect from the process of being precise. Up at the top of our painting what we have so far is this color, let's say, right here. On the opposite side here, it's the sam...”
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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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