Character Illustration with Acrylic
Lighting and volume
A course by Ariel Olivetti , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Lighting and volume
Overview
“Here you will learn how to lighten the lightest parts of the illustration with acrylic and how to add volume to them. ”
In this video lesson Ariel Olivetti addresses the topic: Lighting and volume, 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
“Lighting and volume For the lighting and volume, I already prepared a blue base, like the one we have in our final project and in most volumes of the character, and we are going to begin to lighten, not with white, but with turquoise, not the same color that we had as a base, but with a blue, with a variation to see how this works. First in a square and then in the character’s volumes. For this, we are going to work with the purest material possible, trying to leave most of the thinner that we used before to apply the base because I want the material to have the covering power that you can ...”
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Course summary for: Character Illustration with Acrylic
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Category
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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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