Illustrating Mythological Characters

Overview

“Just as in watercolor I apply layers of yellow and an ink finish to make the illustration look good, on the computer I have a couple of tricks that I feel give my illustrations a more personal quality. I'll tell you!”

In this video lesson Alfredo Cáceres addresses the topic: Style settings, 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

“style settings In this lesson I will give you the final details to our digital illustration. In the last lesson I taught you more or less how I put together these illustrations. I put the base colors, I add some spots, a little shadow, but there is something very important, the character. Just as I painted with yellow on top of the illustration on paper, I do something a bit similar here. The first thing I do is put all the layers together so that the file is not filled with layers and not know where I am. All those layers I put with clip mask... As you remember, the clip mask is attached t...”

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Course summary for: Illustrating Mythological Characters

• Level: Beginner
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• 1271 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