Digital Illustration of Fantasy Animals for Beginners
Painting Light and Shadow 2
A course by Jonas Jödicke , Digital Artist
About the video: Painting Light and Shadow 2
Overview
“After the large areas and shapes are defined, I go into more and more detail. With different brushes and texture layers I also work textures into the picture.”
In this video lesson Jonas Jödicke addresses the topic: Painting Light and Shadow 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration of Fantasy Animals for Beginners. Play around with composition, color, and light to create unique fantasy artwork using a graphics tablet and software.
Partial transcription of the video
“Paint light and shadow Now before I start painting the light, I want to be here in the background first bring in even more middle tones, because the transition from this bright area to the dark is pretty hard. I want there to be a transition. For this I create a new layer and take my brush tool. I also want a bit of structure or add texture to fog in the background. For that I use this brush here, I'll make it bigger then. This is a custom brush or a special brush, that I downloaded from an artist named Yuumei. It is free and of course also linked in the attachments. I'll do this to about 3...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration of Fantasy Animals for Beginners
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Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Jonas Jödicke
A course by Jonas Jödicke
Jonas Jödicke, also known on social media as JoJoesArt, is a freelance artist from Berlin, Germany. Passionate about fantasy art, he works almost exclusively in digital format and specializes in animal illustrations. He shares his pieces, often inspired by spiritual or personal themes, with more than 500K followers on social media. He also sells his illustrations in the form of prints, stickers, coloring books, and other products in his Etsy store.
Since 2015, his art has been his profession, and he's already collaborated with several well-known brands. One of his pieces, entitled Magic Deer, was chosen as Ravensburger's 2019 Puzzle of the Year and is a bestseller in many countries around the world. Similarly, one of his designs for the 2019 Exit puzzle series won the ASTRA award for best Children's Toy in the United States. Thanks to licensing contracts, Jonas sells his pieces as smartphone themes for Huawei, printed on clothing for The Mountain or his own brand Bittersweet Paris, as metal posters for Displate, as painting and craft kits through the Diamond Art Club, and as paint-by-number works.
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