Picturebook Creation
The Color Palette 2
A course by Flavia Z Drago , Illustrator, autor and graphic designer
About the video: The Color Palette 2
Overview
“Now, I will explain a little bit of color theory and I will develop the color palette for my book, we will see: - Hue, saturation and lightness - Warm and cold - Harmonies: complementary - How to create neutral colors - Harmonies: Adjacent, analogs, triad and tetrada Then, I'm going to show you how to create a color palette with its neutral tones and how I apply it to my thumbnails. ”
In this video lesson Flavia Z Drago addresses the topic: The Color Palette 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Picturebook Creation. Use illustration as a narrative base for your book and create a model ready to present to an editor.
Partial transcription of the video
“The color palette 2 In this lesson, I'll talk about color theory and we'll begin to develop the color palette for our project. I'd like to begin by explaining the qualities of color. The first quality is tone and it refers to the color itself, that is, red, orange, blue, purple, green. Then, we have the saturation and this refers to the color pigmentation. Here, the color isn't very pigmented and tends to go into greys and here we see that if it's more pigmented, it's brighter. The last color quality is the luminosity, this means how light or dark it is. When the luminosity is low the color...”
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Course summary for: Picturebook Creation
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Flavia Z Drago
A course by Flavia Z Drago
Flavia studied graphic design in Mexico and for many years, worked in branding and packaging design. She later became an illustrator and is now a full-time writer and illustrator of picturebooks for children of all ages. Her books can be found in Mexico, Spain, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and online through Amazon.
As a designer, she has worked with Dolce Gusto, Nestlé Chocolate, and Hermés. She has illustrated for editorials such as Combel (Ricitos de Oro), Petra (Dientes, Santo Remedio), Delete Dog (Balandra), and the Secretary of Culture in Mexico (Tolstoi), A Fin de Cuentos (Alimentos que cambiaron al mundo), Castillo (Maroma y la mariposa roja) and Walker Books (Gustavo the Shy Ghost); and for animation studios like HolaCombo (Matlatzinca and #Refugeechildren) and Dicinueve36 (Little Thinkers).
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