Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Start coloring: color bases 2
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Start coloring: color bases 2
Overview
“Once the grass stalks are finished, I'll move on to working on the clouds, without defining their edges too much and playing with shapes and sizes to make the illustration more dynamic. Then I'll add the details of the character's face and clothing.”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Start coloring: color bases 2, 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 Now I'm going to draw, color and make the base for the clouds. As with grass stems, the basic concept is the same. The drawing I had made was just a trace, so I won't follow it precisely as I did for example with the character. To make the clouds, I recommend using a brush that has a nice texture both inside and around the edges, but also very soft so that the edges of the clouds aren't too sharp. You can use a layer mask to eat the edges to simulate the edges of the cloud. Now I'll show you. I make the layer mask. With another brush we eat the edges. ...”
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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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