Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture
The beginning of everything: What are you going to illustrate?
A course by Sergio Edwards , Illustrator
About the video: The beginning of everything: What are you going to illustrate?
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how I create an idea that will be reflected in an illustration. You can draw on what you want; I will show you ways that have worked for me when approaching it.”
In this video lesson Sergio Edwards addresses the topic: The beginning of everything: What are you going to illustrate?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture. Learn how to give a 3D look to your illustrations with light, shadow, and color techniques using Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“The beginning of everything: What are you going to illustrate? In this lesson I will teach you how to ground an idea to an image. We arrive at the beginning of everything. Now we have to ask ourselves what we will draw, what image we will make. The definition of illustration is to graph in an image some idea that we have, translate it into an image. For example, in this case I had two ideas for different currents I ended up putting them together. I wanted to make some lighting that I had not done before make it challenging and interesting like the lighting of the bars of the crib, and he al...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration
Sergio Edwards
A course by Sergio Edwards
Sergio Edwards is a freelance illustrator and his work environment is mainly Adobe Photoshop, where he makes 2D graphics, painting them to give them a 3D look. He works especially in the world of advertising, where he creates colorful campaigns with expressive characters for agencies such as BBDO, Y&R, MullenLowe, and more.
He has been an illustrator for nearly 3 years, a discipline he learned while he was an art director at an advertising agency. He started out making sketches to send to Cannes, the most important advertising festival in the world. Then, he started to make the complete illustrations, several of which have been shortlisted in said festival.
Sergio has worked for clients from China, Hong Kong, the United States, Colombia, Chile, India, Greece, England, Israel, and Chile, among others; the vast majority of them within the advertising sector.
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