Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Creating the mood
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Creating the mood
Overview
“The illustration has neutral colors and little amalgamated with each other. Here I will explain how to standardize them and give atmosphere through the use of filters. ”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Creating the mood, 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
“Creating the mood We put the general shadows and the illustration has neutral colors and little amalgamation between them. In this lesson I'll show you how to standardize them and how to best combine them to give atmosphere. In the second unit, when I explained Photoshop to you, I showed you the difference between all possible layer fusions that are in Photoshop and especially the ones I use the most in my illustrations. In the previous lesson we saw how Multiply works but now I'll show you how those layer mergers work which help to brighten or lighten the various parts of the illustrations...”
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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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