Cover Art Illustration with Pencil, Ink, and Digital Painting
Digital Colouring: The Characters and Main Elements 1
A course by Robert Sammelin , Artist and Art Director
About the video: Digital Colouring: The Characters and Main Elements 1
Overview
“Once you've imported your drawing into Photoshop, the next stage is the digital colouring process. Let's dive in! Before adding colour to the characters and main elements, I will show you how to prepare your file. ”
In this video lesson Robert Sammelin addresses the topic: Digital Colouring: The Characters and Main Elements 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cover Art Illustration with Pencil, Ink, and Digital Painting. Combine pencil and ink drawings with digital painting and image processing to illustrate captivating cover art.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Digital Colouring: The Characters and Main Elements In this lesson, we will dive into the digital coloring process. We will begin with characters and main elements. Let's get back to Photoshop. Let's start by renaming this one the Base Scan so it corresponds with the layers that we used, and for structuring and keeping a fairly clean file structure, I'll move these along here and let's call this Paper. This will serve as the main background. We can change the color of this later on and play around with some more. Let's go into why we did these different contrast versions of the scanned ar...”
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Course summary for: Cover Art Illustration with Pencil, Ink, and Digital Painting
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing
Robert Sammelin
A course by Robert Sammelin
Robert Sammelin is an art director and illustrator from the north of Sweden. For as long as he can remember he has loved creating art of all kinds inspired by his passion for comic books, music, and film. A large chunk of his spare time is spent making cover art for comic books and LPs. He also makes editorial illustrations for magazines and advertising, as well as movie posters, screen prints, and 3D art.
Robert got his break at a video games studio in Stockholm, a long collaboration that enabled him to work on titles including Arc Raiders, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, and Just Cause 2, among others. He simultaneously garnered an extensive portfolio of his own clients including Apple, Nike, The New York Times, WIRED, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Hasbro, Waxwork Records, Vinegar Syndrome, Iam8bit, Dark Horse, and many more. He also designed the double LP for one of his all-time favorites Ennio Morricone.
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