Atmospheric Painting in Procreate: From Concept to Color
Cleaning Up and Improvising
A course by Deb JJ Lee , Illustrator
About the video: Cleaning Up and Improvising
Overview
“Once you have crisp lines, the next step is to refine the illustration. I will teach you how to clean up the drawing with a fairly improvised approach. ”
In this video lesson Deb JJ Lee addresses the topic: Cleaning Up and Improvising, 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
“ Cleaning Up and Improvising Now you have some crisp lines. In this lesson, we'll clean up the colors to start wrapping up the illustration. We're at the final touches and adjustments part of this illustration. I will be also showing you how you can export your file for sharing and other basics on backing up your files. Let's see what we have. Here are all the lines that also took me a long time. If yours took a while, don't feel bad because mine took a very long time too, so don't worry about it. These are the colors that we ended up last time. What we'll do this whole time is clean up. I...”
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Course summary for: Atmospheric Painting in Procreate: From Concept to Color
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Areas
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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