Digital Illustration Applied to Products
Contours and shadows. Part 1
A course by Guacala Studio , Graphic Designers and Illustrators
About the video: Contours and shadows. Part 1
Overview
“To start this process of defining the project we will start showing you the initial preparation of the file, for this we are going to give you some tips for you to work on a Photoshop file with the optimal characteristics for a work of good final appearance. Then we will continue giving you some tips to configure the brush tool in order to obtain an optimal invoice result, in that process we are adding some additional details that will define the final appearance of each of the elements. At the end, we will choose some areas of the illustration to add hard shadows, with this we will obtain a set of interesting planes and volumes in sight. ”
In this video lesson Guacala Studio addresses the topic: Contours and shadows. Part 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration Applied to Products. Combine characters, lettering, and illustrated elements to create unique compositions from beginning to end.
Partial transcription of the video
“Contours and shadows Now that we have Andres's sketch, let's work on this lesson with the contours and shadows for our characters. Let's start For this, what we are going to do is define the scores in which we are going to work these lines. And what we are going to do initially is generate a new layer. And in this new layer What we are going to do is paint it gray. It will be a layer that will be among our sketch and our characters in lines. We use this to have a kind of opacity in all our characters and it is much easier to work the line. Now, what we are going to do is turn off all the la...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration Applied to Products
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Traditional illustration

Guacala Studio
A course by Guacala Studio
Sebastián Sanchez and Andrés Bolaños are graphic designers and the creators of Guacala Studio. They produce both analog and digital illustrations and work making murals, modifying objects, and promoting workshops of different artistic and creative disciplines for adults and children.
They have been in the profession for over a decade and have worked for brands such as Croop, Border Skateboards, Scummy Bears, Soho Colombia, and American Socks, among others. Their specialty is the creation of fun, nineties-style characters, focusing mainly on illustration for the development of youth products for different brands in Poland, Mexico, and USA. They have also had the opportunity to show their work in Ecuador and Venezuela and have taken part in exhibitions, collaborations, and editorial projects in other countries.
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