Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations
Coloring the Sketch
A course by R. Kikuo Johnson , Illustrator and Cartoonist
About the video: Coloring the Sketch
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to add color to the black-and-white sketch, bringing life and interest to your illustration.”
In this video lesson R. Kikuo Johnson addresses the topic: Coloring the Sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations. Learn how to tell a complete story in a single image by exploring narrative illustration and drawing exercises in the style and medium of choice.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Coloring the Sketch Now that you've taken photo reference using yourself as a model to get those important naturalistic details into your black-and-white sketch, in this lesson, I'll use my Cintiq to add color. As you're designing your image in color, you may remember one of our nine tips for telling a complete story in a single image was a limited color palette. Let me show you what I mean by that. One of the best ways to think about a limited color palette is to think about color in pairs of complements. Now, complementary colors are colors that are on opposite sides of a color wheel. Y...”
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Course summary for: Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration
R. Kikuo Johnson
A course by R. Kikuo Johnson
R Kikuo Johnson is a cartoonist and illustrator from Hawaii. He fell in love with drawing at a young age as a way to tell stories and went on to study illustration at art school where he started his first graphic novel, Night Fisher. After graduating, he published a second novel and landed his first major illustration job—a two-page illustration in The New Yorker.
Since then, Kikuo has collaborated with clients including Airbnb, The Atlantic, Coca-Cola, The Guggenheim Foundation, Marvel Comics, The New York Times, Newsweek, Nike, Puma, and Penguin Random House. His illustrations have earned two gold medals from the Society Of Illustrators, and his most recent graphic novella, No One Else, won the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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