Color and Lighting Techniques with Acrylic Paint
The shadows
A course by Sole Otero , Illustrator and Textile Designer
About the video: The shadows
Overview
“Now I am going to choose what color I want to work my shadows with and I am going to explain why. Next, I am going to choose the point of origin of the light, outside the image to be able to choose the direction of the shadows. Then, with thin acrylic, I will apply them over all my illustration to achieve a uniform environment.”
In this video lesson Sole Otero addresses the topic: The 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
“The shadows In this lesson we will finish closing the illustration with the last detail, which is a very important detail, but simple at the same time. It is very important because it is the one that ends adding the weather to the illustration. It is a technique this. It does not mean that the shadows are made the same. Many times the shadows are made by mixing one color with the other, more like what we did in the volume lesson. This is a different technique closer to the gouache technique and what he allows us is to pass him a layer of shadow above the entire illustration. The first thing...”
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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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