Color and Lighting Techniques with Acrylic Paint
Choosing the palette
A course by Sole Otero , Illustrator and Textile Designer
About the video: Choosing the palette
Overview
“We are going to do a quick review of the different types of color palettes that we can use and what are the effects of those palettes when communicating. I'm going to show you how I work when choosing colors for an illustration, making small sketches and testing the different combinations easily and quickly within these thumbnails.”
In this video lesson Sole Otero addresses the topic: Choosing the palette, 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
“Choosing the palette In this lesson, we will begin to work on the illustration. For that we will define some things that we have to think about before putting the acrylic inside the illustration. Among them how to choose the color palette. I already brought a worked sketch and in that sketch I am using the following features or needing them to have these characteristics. Let there be a diversity of shots in front of the background, where the things that are in the illustration are positioned very close to the viewer's point of view and others further afield. This is because acrylic has char...”
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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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