Expressive Watercolor Painting: Create Compelling Illustrations
The Midtones
A course by Reha Sakar , Visual Artist
About the video: The Midtones
Overview
“Next, I will come closer to the camera. This means that it's time to achieve darker midtones. I will build the depth slowly, from far elements to closer ones. ”
In this video lesson Reha Sakar addresses the topic: The Midtones, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Watercolor Painting: Create Compelling Illustrations. Learn watercolor techniques to capture the mood and atmosphere of a scene in both black and white and in color.
Partial transcription of the video
“So the paper is right. And in this lesson, I'm going to add more darker tones. As I told you before, the most important and hardest part of the painting the mid-towns. If I go too dark for midtones, then at the end, my darkest dark should be very dark. So that's not ideal. So my Midtones is going to be a little bit darker than this, but not too dark. The water color is dry like 30% lighter. That's why we should predict how it will dry and be careful not to go too dark. Okay, let's start painting again. Now I'm going to start with the left side of the painting. and I will get much more paint...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Watercolor Painting: Create Compelling Illustrations
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Fine Arts, Painting, Watercolor Painting
Reha Sakar
A course by Reha Sakar
Reha Sakar is a Turkish artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He first began painting as a young child with his mother and fellow artist. After studying astronomy at university and working as an insurance broker during the holidays, he soon realized that art was his true passion. From there, he took a course in Photoshop and discovered his talent for 3D art, which kick-started his creative career.
Since then, Reha has worked in digital media for more than 10 years. He has created promotional material for Call of Duty, Diablo III, The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Marvel’s Avengers, World War Z, Rango, Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, and more. He has also written articles on matte painting and worked with sports leagues including the NHL.
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