Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture
Preparing the painting: Everything in layers (part 2)
A course by Sergio Edwards , Illustrator
About the video: Preparing the painting: Everything in layers (part 2)
Overview
“In this video we will continue with the construction of layers to order our elements of the scene and the next painting process.”
In this video lesson Sergio Edwards addresses the topic: Preparing the painting: Everything in layers (part 2), 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 The Martians will do them all in the same "layer", then i will draw their lines like this. I make the selections that I was talking about in the most efficient way possible. The less "layers" there are in your scene, tidier it will be. The aliens will all go on the same "layer", or possibly all the eyes in the scene also make them in the same "layer". In this way I am ordering myself much more and not filling the scene with "layers", which would be a little cumbersome. I tend to do the "layers" that go ahead before those behind. The planets I think I wi...”
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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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