Digital Illustration of Fantasy Animals for Beginners
Painting Light and Shadow 3
A course by Jonas Jödicke , Digital Artist
About the video: Painting Light and Shadow 3
Overview
“Now I want to further refine the foggy surface and add some more texture and shape.”
In this video lesson Jonas Jödicke addresses the topic: Painting Light and Shadow 3, 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 I don't need my mood board for the next step. That's why I turned it off. I want my foggy surface now work out a little more. I'm still missing texture and shape here and that's why I'll take the first step turn off the layers I don't need now. I go to my fog surface and create a correction layer, hue saturation. Then I reduce the brightness. On the layer mask I want the previous brightness bring something back with black and a large brush. However, only here near the tiger, here in the middle, so that the nebula gets darker towards the edge. I open my prepared folder...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration of Fantasy Animals for Beginners
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Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
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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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