Atmospheric Painting in Procreate: From Concept to Color
Telling a Story with Color 2
A course by Deb JJ Lee , Illustrator
About the video: Telling a Story with Color 2
Overview
“As I explained in the previous lesson, gradient mapping is an amazing tool that will allow you to plot and discern certain aspects of the narrative through value. Once you've mapped out the different levels of shading and completed the grayscale image, the next step is to colorize these tones. Let me show you how to do this!”
In this video lesson Deb JJ Lee addresses the topic: Telling a Story with Color 2, 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
“ Telling a Story with Color Now, you can see that I have a pretty good idea of how the value layer will work. This is the fun part where we'll start mapping the gradient. Make sure that your sketch layer is locked. You also want to duplicate your grayscale layer because the gradient mapping bit will go directly on top of the layer. If you don't like the gradient mapping, it's always good to have a duplicate just in case. This is how to get started. Have the grayscale selected, we'll go to Adjustments and then you'll see Gradient Map. You'll see that there are a bunch of different palettes ...”
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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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