Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture
Preparing the painting: Everything in layers (part 1)
A course by Sergio Edwards , Illustrator
About the video: Preparing the painting: Everything in layers (part 1)
Overview
“Having our drawing ready, in this lesson I will show you how to create solid layers of all the elements of the scene, which we will then paint to create the long-awaited volume and character of the illustration. Should each element go on its own layer? No. Here the idea is to be as efficient as possible and not make the painting cumbersome. I'll show you how.”
In this video lesson Sergio Edwards addresses the topic: Preparing the painting: Everything in layers (part 1), 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
“Preparing the painting: All in layers In this lesson we will prepare the layers for our project. We have our sketch ready. Now it is time to create the "layers" that will serve as a support to paint our scene. The first thing I will look at is if the image size it is big enough to paint. There it is at 100% and we can see that for the sketch the size is perfect but for the final painting I will stay a little short, then I will enlarge the image a little by going to Image, Image Size, I please 3500 and click OK. We can see that it is still 100% but the elements come much closer now, they are...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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