Character Sketchbook: Find Your Voice
digital color
A course by Carlos Sallas , Graphic Artist
About the video: digital color
Overview
“In this lesson, we'll delve into using digital color to bring your illustrations to life. You'll learn how to select appropriate color palettes, apply shadows and highlights effectively, and use layers to create depth and texture. These techniques will allow you to experiment and find the chromatic style that best enhances your drawings, achieving a vibrant and professional finish.”
In this video lesson Carlos Sallas addresses the topic: digital color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Sketchbook: Find Your Voice. Create original drawings in your sketchbook and personalize you favorite fictional character with different exercises..
Partial transcription of the video
“Since we have the sketch digitized, Now let's start the color process. Before starting to color our character, Let's review the order of the layers we have. First, We have the photo of the sketch we made in our notebook. On top of this layer, we made a new one, where we made a new sketch and added details that we came up with at the time to improve the illustration. And on top of this layer, There is our digital line or our digital ink. And just below this layer is where we're going to start coloring. We must be aware of the order we have so that we are not working on wrong layers, because ...”
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Course summary for: Character Sketchbook: Find Your Voice
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Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Carlos Sallas
A course by Carlos Sallas
Carlos Sallas is a distinguished graphic artist and designer hailing from a small town in southern Morelos, Mexico. His deep passion for drawing has led him to work in a variety of fields, including editorial illustration, animation, advertising, and tattooing.
He has collaborated with well-known brands like Moleskine, Wacom, and Kraken, and has contributed to projects with studios such as Ánima, Fotosíntesis, and 4M2Q Studios. Carlos has also taught workshops and given lectures at institutions like Escena, Coco School, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, and the Pixelatl Festival.
Among his most notable projects are the comic "La Canción del Lago," which won first place at the 2019 Pixelatl Festival, and "San Misterio," an animated series and comic that has received accolades at various international festivals.
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