Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Course 4: Using Colour: Plasta, contour and plasta 2
By Aarón Martínez
About the video: Plasta, contour and plasta 2
Overview
“In this unit, we will continue to learn how to apply color to basic shapes with plastas and also combined fillings and contours.”
In this video lesson Aarón Martínez addresses the topic: Plasta, contour and plasta 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: Using Colour. Learn to add color to your projects by selecting Pantone® palettes and color modes.
Partial transcription of the video
“ILLUSTRATOR COURSE 4 LESSON 4 Plasta, contour and plasta We start with a rectangle and round it completely. We have the base here. For this we will use our Color or Swatches Library. We select Nature and we choose Seasons. Let's see what colors we get. From Seasons we'll choose the skin of the character. It can be this purple shade. I think this purple is pretty good. Or maybe a more orangey shade. We already used yellow-orange. We go back to purple. Now I will draw a rectangle to make the nose. I can make it totally square or I can round this section. With Command + Y I will see only my ve...”
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Course summary for: Course 4: Using Colour

Aarón Martínez
By Aarón Martínez
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