Atmospheric Painting in Procreate: From Concept to Color
Effective Compositions 1
A course by Deb JJ Lee , Illustrator
About the video: Effective Compositions 1
Overview
“Next, you will get familiar with the qualities that define an effective composition, ready to tell stories through your illustrations. I will first help you to get to grips with the theory, by outlining the rule of thirds, the foreground, the midground, the background, and dynamic compositions.”
In this video lesson Deb JJ Lee addresses the topic: Effective Compositions 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Atmospheric Painting in Procreate: From Concept to Color. Learn to follow your artistic intuition to create atmospheric illustrations by experimenting with concepts, color, and composition.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Effective Compositions You know how to find inspiration and references. Now, I'll talk about thumbnailing and composition. We'll zoom out a bit and talk about what thumbnailing is. Thumbnailing is pretty much how it sounds. It's supposed to be small, you want very rough sketches to get the basic idea across, huge emphasis on roughness and don't even think about the details. You want the subject and the movement, what is happening, the basic idea of what's composition. This is not the time to think about detailed facial expressions. You can think about costumes or designs later. Just very ...”
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Course summary for: Atmospheric Painting in Procreate: From Concept to Color
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Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration
Deb JJ Lee
A course by Deb JJ Lee
Deborah Lee is a Korean illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. During the last year of their design degree at Carnegie Mellon University, they realized that drawing was their true passion and spent the years after graduating developing their portfolio while working as a UX designer in Silicon Valley. In 2020, Deb made the leap to a full-time freelancing career. As a self-taught illustrator, they rely on both technique and intuition to create art with a strong emotional charge.
Deb has collaborated with brands such as Google, Facebook, Lyft, LinkedIn, and Procreate, as well as media outlets like New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and PBS. In the editorial field, they have illustrated for publishers including HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Simon and Schuster. They also wrote their own graphic memoir, IN LIMBO, and has been awarded for their work by the Society of Illustrators and Adobe.
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