Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Finalize with effects
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Finalize with effects
Overview
“In this lesson, you'll learn how to add some cool effects and finalize the illustration. ”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Finalize with effects, 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
“Finalize with effects In this lesson I show you how to add cool effects to finalize our illustration. Our illustration is practically complete, but I still want to explain some tricks to give it an extra touch. But before applying any effect, we need to put some order in our file and in our layers, because these effects cannot be applied to folders. So we should essentially be dealing with layers. What does it mean? It means creating big folders in which we enclose all the elements and all the main levels. By placing them in this folder, we will then merge them into individual layers. Now I...”
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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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