Color and Lighting Techniques with Acrylic Paint
Volume 1
A course by Sole Otero , Illustrator and Textile Designer
About the video: Volume 1
Overview
“Now I'm going to show you how to work acrylic from dark to light with a thick technique and a loaded brush, so I can gradually generate the volume in the space while the acrylic is still wet. I will take into account the geometric shapes observed above and how bodies are made up of them.”
In this video lesson Sole Otero addresses the topic: Volume 1, 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
“The volume In this lesson we will work with another technique other than acrylic, one that is perhaps more like his brother the oil, only that being a plastic painting, acrylic gives us the advantage that it dries faster than oil, but it comes from the same place where we will start to work, the other way around as we did before, from darkest to lightest. For that, we continue with our illustration and we will work on the area of the front of the illustration. In this area what we have is a plant sector. We will improvise the shapes of the leaves, although some are delimited in the drawing,...”
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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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