Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Start coloring: color bases 1
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Start coloring: color bases 1
Overview
“Now I'm going to teach you how to base color for both the character and the background using selections. ”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Start coloring: color bases 1, 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
“Starting coloring: the basics of color In this lesson, I'll explain how to put the color bases through the use of selections. As a very first step, I suggest you choose a color for the background. It doesn't have to be the color you'll later use for the background, but let's say that the more you choose a similar one the better because it will be very useful to you, since it will already give you an idea on the colors to use for the bases as well. Let's say that in this case I start coloring with the color of the sky. Let's start coloring each part of our drawing, reminding us to do every b...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
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Category
Illustration -
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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