About the video: Color
Overview
“I will explain to you what colors you should use as a base and what kind of chromatic variants I like to use for my illustrations. This is a strategic moment in any illustration. Remember that the color palette will give you different results, going from the emotional to the gimmicky.”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Creative Illustration with Acrylic Paint. Explore floral illustration techniques with acrylics, mastering organic shapes, textures, and vibrant and expressive patterns..
Partial transcription of the video
“Color In this lesson we'll talk about color. With color, although in this course color theory will not be covered exhaustively, it is important that we emphasize some basic notions. If we use color as it comes by the book, painting red things red and painting blue things blue, our illustration will lack the strength that we want to give at the end. Here we are seeing examples of a single color, a graduation from shadow to light and different ways of moving along that gradient towards light. At the top here I showed you how to make a fade effect using blue. Later we will see that using any c...”
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Course summary for: Specialization in Creative Illustration with Acrylic Paint
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Acrylic Painting, Artistic Drawing, Creativity, Fine Arts, Floral & Plant Design, Painting, Traditional illustration

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