Character Illustration with Acrylic
Color
A course by Ariel Olivetti , Illustrator and Comic Artist
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 Ariel Olivetti addresses the topic: Color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Illustration with Acrylic. Learn step by step how to give volume, color, and realism to a superhero using acrylic paint.
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: Character Illustration with Acrylic
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Character Design, Comic, Painting, Traditional illustration
Ariel Olivetti
A course by Ariel Olivetti
Ariel Olivetti was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires. His passion for drawing the human figure and creating characters led him to creating cover illustrations for the comic magazine FIERRO in the ‘90s. He is also a co-creator of the comic El Cazador. He has been working in the comic industry for over twenty five years as an artist and illustrator, collaborating on publications for Dark Horse, Valiant, Sideshow, MARVEL, DC Comics, and Upper Deck.
His first artwork for the US market was The Last Avengers story for Marvel Comics, and was followed by Daredevil and X-Men. He has collaborated on a limited edition series for DC called Space Ghost and a host of other titles, including Mystique and Sabretooth (1996), Alpha Flight (1997), and What if? (1997) for Marvel, as well as JLA: Paradise Lost (1998), Haven: The Broken City (2002), Green Lantern (2003), and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight.
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