Digital Illustration with Textures in Photoshop
Letting go of my hand and generating textures I
A course by Juan Dellacha , Illustrator and graphic designer
About the video: Letting go of my hand and generating textures I
Overview
“Although we illustrate in digital, we need to let go of the hand and do tests with the tool, just as if we were using a brush or pencil in analog. I'm going to start by showing you the Psds I use as Moleskine, but more economical and digital. Then some canvases of Photoshop where I paint when I am bored or also when I want to try loose, abstract or figurative forms that I then transfer to my work. ”
In this video lesson Juan Dellacha addresses the topic: Letting go of my hand and generating textures I, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration with Textures in Photoshop. Learn to use textures and graphic resources to enrich your illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“Letting go of the hand and generating textures Although we illustrate in digital, we need to be able to let go of the hand and be able to appropriate the tool to be able to control it and do with it what we want, as if we used a paper and a brush. For that, I thought about this exercise, in which they can generate textures from the brushes and tools from previous lessons. I want to show you some Canvas that I use in Photoshop, as if it were a sketchbook, although I get cheaper and I can illustrate them whenever I want, when I'm on the computer. And I want to show you how I use them and for ...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration with Textures in Photoshop
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Juan Dellacha
A course by Juan Dellacha
He studied design at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), where he was an assistant professor of Graphic Design 1 (Gabriele Chair) and is currently a professor of Editorial Illustration (Catedra Roldán).
He worked in different design studios, and after about 3 years, he decided to venture into life freelance working for agencies such as: 90 + 10, Alegría Buenos Aires, Assisi, BeTwentyFive, Brava Estudio, DGPH, GulaVisual , Gonni Agency, Patricio Oliver, Smack, Tregua, WeNoise, among others.
As an illustrator he has designed and illustrated in diverse fields and projects. His experience and training have helped him develop versatility and rigor in the use of visual languages, color and composition, both to design and to illustrate. His specialty is to create visual resources for brands, ventures, magazines and events, from various fields and scales.
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