Illustrating Mythological Characters

Overview

“In order not to waste a million pages, sometimes the computer is the best tool to give shape to ideas. In this lesson I will teach you how to create your sketch digitally.”

In this video lesson Alfredo Cáceres addresses the topic: The computer: the illustrator's best friend, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrating Mythological Characters. Learn the process of developing an illustration based on a myth, first using watercolors and then exploring digital techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“The computer: the illustrator's best friend In this lesson I will show you how I make my digital sketches. Why digital? It's something that has taken me some time to refine. Being an illustrator many times I have to work only in digital and as a way to escape to the computer I started drawing only on paper and over time the two have been mixed, so much so that I like to paint on the computer as if I painted on paper and I like to paint on paper as if I painted on a computer. This process is necessary to me because through the computer I can save a lot of time of tracing and tracing images w...”

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Course summary for: Illustrating Mythological Characters

• Level: Beginner
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• 1319 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 18m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting