Cover Art Illustration with Pencil, Ink, and Digital Painting
Touching up the Illustration
A course by Robert Sammelin , Artist and Art Director
About the video: Touching up the Illustration
Overview
“To bring the painting to a strong finish, I will guide you in adding some highlights and shadows, finding and fixing any glaring mistakes, as well as adding some textural flourishes. ”
In this video lesson Robert Sammelin addresses the topic: Touching up the Illustration, 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
“ Touching up the Illustration In this lesson, we're going to do some touch ups, add shadows and highlights, fix whatever mistakes that are glaring to us, and then add some textural flourishes. I think our hero is missing something. I want to try and add some headphones maybe here. Now we can't perfectly match the linework that we've done, but I don't think it matters all that much. I have this brush here. Let's see how that fares. It's part of a set of ink brushes. We can lay down some basic shape that I want for it. Let's call it Additions and we'll add a layer on top that we call... Addi...”
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Course summary for: Cover Art Illustration with Pencil, Ink, and Digital Painting
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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