Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Theory of color and shadows
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Theory of color and shadows
Overview
“It's time to discover the theory of shadows. In this lesson I will explain the difference between direct light and indirect light, and I will also tell you about color theory. ”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Theory of color and shadows, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters. Learn to design expressive characters in Photoshop by focusing on traits, poses, framing, composition, color, and shading.
Partial transcription of the video
“Theory of color and shadows In this lesson, I'll explain some rules on how shadows, lights and colors work. Theories of colors and shadows We always start from the references. As we have done so far, look for as many references as possible even between different media. For example, here I have chosen from an illustration, a cartoon and a movie, to make you understand that you can really draw on anything to get inspiration for your illustration. For example, this is an illustration by artist Loish, this instead is taken from the cartoon "Arcane" and instead the third image is taken from a fr...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration
Alessia Trunfio
A course by Alessia Trunfio
Alessia Trunfio is an illustrator who specializes in children's books. Her love of drawing as a child motivated her to pursue the arts in college, studying a degree in film, followed by an animation course at the Scuola Internazionale di Comics in Rome. Soon after, she started working at an animation studio as a background artist.
Thanks to sharing her fanart and other works on platforms like Behance, she built a reputation and found success as an illustrator, turning it into a full-blown career. Over the years, she's collaborated on illustration and book cover projects with some of the biggest names in publishing, including Bloomsbury, Scholastic, Capstone, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.
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