Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
Making It Digital
A course by Melissa Castrillón , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Making It Digital
Overview
“We will scan and transfer our artwork onto Photoshop; from there, we will bring our final illustration into full colour! Let me show you how I do it. ”
In this video lesson Melissa Castrillón addresses the topic: Making It Digital, which is part of the Domestika online course: Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition. Develop eye-catching illustrations for picturebooks by using harmonious structures and a consistent color palette while experimenting with textures and media.
Partial transcription of the video
“Making It Digital This is probably one of my favourite parts of the process because it is now where I get to inject colour and life into the final illustration. In this lesson I will show you how to digitally colour your artwork in Photoshop to complete your illustration. So, let's get started. Okay, we're ready to start. Here we've got the purple layer, which is the first layer, and then we've got the olive layer, the second one, and the yellow layer, which is our third layer. I'm going to start off with the purple layer. Because it's been scanned in it's a little bit lighter that what I w...”
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Course summary for: Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Color Theory, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Melissa Castrillón
A course by Melissa Castrillón
Melissa Castrillón is a freelance illustrator and designer with a mix of English and Colombian roots. Growing up in a creative family, she knew from the age of five that she wanted to draw for a living. While studying an MA in children’s book illustration at the Anglia Ruskin University, she discovered screen printing, and with it, a new way to approach her artwork, focusing on color and composition.
Melissa has illustrated over 25 book covers and more than ten picturebooks, collaborating with publishers like Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Bloomsbury, and Scholastic. She has also written three of her own, Mighty Min, The Balcony and Can You Keep a Secret?, which have been translated into more than 20 languages. In 2019, she was awarded the Gold medal by the Society of Illustrators in New York for The Balcony. That same year, she was asked to redesign the covers for Philip Pullman’s popular trilogy His Dark Materials.
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