Color and Lighting Techniques with Acrylic Paint
Watching the lights and shadows
A course by Sole Otero , Illustrator and Textile Designer
About the video: Watching the lights and shadows
Overview
“Before venturing into working with colors, let's see how lights and shadows behave on simple objects. With a lamp and a small group of volumetric figures, we are going to experiment what happens when they are brought closer, further away and rotated with respect to the light, as well as observing what happens when we place them one in front of the other.”
In this video lesson Sole Otero addresses the topic: Watching the lights and shadows, which is part of the Domestika online course: Color and Lighting Techniques with Acrylic Paint. Learn to work with color harmoniously to create the perfect mood in your illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“Watching the lights and shadows In this lesson we will observe the lights and shadows on objects. It is information that will be useful to us when drawing and reproducing shapes. And that's why I brought here some objects with which we will observe how it works these two attributes in matter and in space. For that we will lower the lights of the studio and I will show you. Here we have different types of figures, all different and with different characteristics, that will help us to see the incidence of light. For example, taking into account that the light comes from here. Let us observe t...”
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Course summary for: Color and Lighting Techniques with Acrylic Paint
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Category
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Creativity, Painting, Traditional illustration
Sole Otero
A course by Sole Otero
Sole Otero is an illustrator, textile designer, and comic artist. Her graphic novels and children’s books have been published around the world by publishers like La Cúpula or Salamandra Graphic. She was also awarded the FNAC Graphic Novel Award for her book Naftalina.
Color is the most salient feature of her compositions, but she compliments her storytelling by experimenting with words and illustrations. When she’s not creating, she shares her passion for art by teaching classes on expressive mediums, embroidery, knitting, illustration, and comics.
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