From Pencil Drawing to Digital Illustration
Shadows and lights
A course by Dani Blázquez , Illustrator
About the video: Shadows and lights
Overview
“Here we are going to apply the first values of shadows and lights to establish a certain contrast and volume. ”
In this video lesson Dani Blázquez addresses the topic: Shadows and lights, which is part of the Domestika online course: From Pencil Drawing to Digital Illustration. Create a radical illustration by combining analogue drawing with Photoshop effects.
Partial transcription of the video
“We are in a new lesson, and we will begin to give the first shadows and lights; to get a certain volume in our main figure. Let's go with it. Well the first thing we will do, is to duplicate this layer. We are going to put it in white. And we will put it in multiply mode. As we have the pixels blocked. In this way, We can ... paint without fear of getting out. We have the layer ready. And now we are going to choose, A tone without being pure black. Let's take a skin-like tone but a little darker. So far we had been using basic brushes that brings Photoshop. Now I'm going to use a slightly t...”
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Course summary for: From Pencil Drawing to Digital Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Photography Post-production
Dani Blázquez
A course by Dani Blázquez
His story begins as that of 9 out of 10 cartoonists: stuck to pencils since childhood. However, there was a time when Dani Blázquez was doing tricks and gambetas to the illustration, as if trying to avoid an uncomfortable traveling companion who follows you to the destination station.
In 2009 he decided to resume the drawing and try to turn it into his profession. He went to Oviedo to study Illustration and in 2012 he began to receive his first assignments. His most iconic works are those that delve into the imaginary of his childhood and adolescence.
Usually starting from memories in the form of eighties graphics, advertising, posters and, ultimately, everything that has to do with the 89 and 90: posters of movies, music, aesthetics, colors ...
Dani Blázquez cites as influences a score of names that include, among others, Martin Ansin, Gabz, Drew Struzan, Jano, Richard Amsel, Ken Taylor, Gomez Quibus, Tomer Hanuka or Mucha. But then there are those who do not cite, those springing springly from their plates. Steven Spielberg, the teenage cinema of the 80s, the now retro futurism of Ridley Scott or James Cameron and other blockbusters of those glorious times. In his proposal everything is color, popcorn and Mirindas, a constant reminder in time happy and carefree.
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