Digital Illustration with Textures in Photoshop
Use of reduced color palettes
A course by Juan Dellacha , Illustrator and graphic designer
About the video: Use of reduced color palettes
Overview
“First, I am going to show you referents of both illustration and graphic design of the early and mid-twentieth century so you can see examples of resolutions with few colors, where textures, fabrics and graphics play a fundamental role in promoting chromatic use, due to the technical limitations of the time. We will see children's books of the Russian avant-garde (example), Art Deco and its airbrush textures to represent the neon and the metallic materials and the fragmented plans of the covers of the books of Jose Bonomi. These references will help us think and apply the color in the course. ”
In this video lesson Juan Dellacha addresses the topic: Use of reduced color palettes, 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
“Use of reduced color palettes I want to show you in this lesson some historical references of the early and mid-century. Some influenced by the avant-garde of the beginning of the century, like the Russian avant-garde, and others for art deco. And to see how they used texture and color, according to the technical limitations of the time. These images you are going to see now are Russian children's books from the late twenties and early thirties, that is, connected with the Russian avant-garde constructivist. I'm interested in the degree of image synthesis, by the application of color and ho...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration with Textures in Photoshop
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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