Illustration of Adorable Characters Inspired by Nature
Shading and Finishing Touches
A course by Johanna Forster , Illustrator
About the video: Shading and Finishing Touches
Overview
“Finally, the illustrations are shaded and given the finishing touches. It's a good idea to double check all the colors and add the subtle bright highlights at the end.”
In this video lesson Johanna Forster addresses the topic: Shading and Finishing Touches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration of Adorable Characters Inspired by Nature. Design lovable digital characters inspired by nature and use them in a variety of decorative compositions.
Partial transcription of the video
“shading and finishing touches Now my illustrations are getting the finishing touches. They are shaded and I add some more highlights. I've already tweaked the background a bit and added some yellow from below, so that the pink behind the deer comes out better. For the shadows I create a new layer. Those come above the color of the characters and below the line art. And now I'm going to set this layer to Multiply and lower opacity. This will make any shadows I paint mixed with the colors below. About 30%. Then I take the same brush as from the lines, a brush with a rather hard contour. For s...”
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Course summary for: Illustration of Adorable Characters Inspired by Nature
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Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing
Johanna Forster
A course by Johanna Forster
Johanna Forster is a freelance illustrator from Saarbrücken, in the southwest of Germany, best known for her cute fruit and vegetable characters. Johanna first studied Fine Art, but quickly switched to the Media Art and Design course, as she was attracted by the variety of Concept Art courses.
A big fan of video games, she also illustrates concepts and has developed several of them, as well as board games. In fact, Nordlicht, the point and click videogame she developed during her studies, even won an award. She has also worked until 2022 as an illustrator at the studio Chasing Carrots. She is currently freelancing with her online shop, where she sells prints, cards, originals, stickers, magnets and many other items inspired by fruit and vegetables.
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