Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Making three-dimensionality
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Making three-dimensionality
Overview
“Now you will see how to give three-dimensionality to the elements of the illustration. I'm going to work on the occlusion and add some general shadows over everything. ”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Making three-dimensionality, 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
“Making three-dimensionality In this lesson we will give three-dimensionality to the drawing, sculpting with color and overall shadows. You remember the second unit in which I told you about cast shadows, proper shadows and occlusion? There, now in this lesson I'm going to put all those theoretical notions into practice which I told you earlier. I did some ordering in my file and I divided the various floors of my illustration into folders, so that you can easily reach all the various levels and don't get lost in the infinite levels, since I make a lot of them. Now, as the very first thing t...”
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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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