Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop
Rendering the Background
A course by Eric Castleman , Children's Book Illustrator
About the video: Rendering the Background
Overview
“To start, I will show you how to render the background. ”
In this video lesson Eric Castleman addresses the topic: Rendering the Background, 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
“Rendering the Background Now that we have our values down, we can start putting paint onto the painting. In this lesson, we'll start with the background and paint loosely. Let's start. We're ready to start painting our background. The reason I'm saying painting is that though we have color here, I'll treat this differently as we have to take into consideration our painting technique as we go because our edges or the way we render in the background, the midground, and the foreground will be similar but a bit different. Usually, that will be because of how fast we paint something or what tool...”
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Course summary for: Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop
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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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