Guided Course: Create an editorial image with acrylic paint
Painting the Background
A guided course by Jon Berkeley , Illustrator and Author
About the video: Painting the Background
Overview
“The background may be painted at this stage, especially if it features textures. Making textures can get enjoyably messy, making it difficult to achieve clean edges painting the background first allows us to overlap a little, and tidy up the edges later when painting foreground objects and figures.”
In this video lesson Jon Berkeley addresses the topic: Painting the Background, which is part of the Domestika online course: Guided Course: Create an editorial image with acrylic paint. Create editorial illustrations using acrylic paint, from concept sketches to final touches, mastering composition and color techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now we have our figure mapped out, we're going to leave the figure alone for the moment and we're going to work on the background for a while, and this is where we can really experiment with the acrylic paint and the textures and effects you can achieve with it. I'm going to demonstrate a technique here that I like to use to introduce some interesting texture to the background. We start here with a color that's a little darker than what I want the finished background color to be. As I mentioned in an earlier lesson, I'm going to go for warm colors. that are, kind of in the same region as fl...”
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Course summary for: Guided Course: Create an editorial image with acrylic paint
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Category
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Adobe Photoshop -
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Acrylic Painting, Creativity, Painting, Traditional illustration
Jon Berkeley
A guided course by Jon Berkeley
Jon Berkeley is an Irish illustrator and children’s author who has worked in the field for almost three decades and traveled to places like London, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Barcelona for illustration work. His passion for illustration began in his youth during the vinyl era, amazed by the artwork that adorned his favorite album covers, prompting him to further his intrigue and study Fine Art in Dublin, Ireland.
Most of his work is for editorial clients in major news and current affairs magazines like L’Express, The New Statesman, Volkskrant, The Economist, and others. He also works on major advertising campaigns and illustrates book jackets, packaging, as well as commissioned portraits for clients like Ted Baker, Vodafone, and Smirnoff.
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