Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture
Basic colors
A course by Sergio Edwards , Illustrator
About the video: Basic colors
Overview
“In this video we will give basic colors to illustration and work around the references. Like all artistic creation, nothing should be too rigid; If you realize that a color doesn't work, you can take the liberty of changing it later. That is one of the advantages of working in digital format.”
In this video lesson Sergio Edwards addresses the topic: Basic colors, 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
“Basic colors In this lesson we will apply a color palette to the project. We have the layers on which we will paint. So now we have to put a base color on it, choose the colors with which we will paint our image. Before I used to make color palettes to guide me in painting, but the truth is that I simplify myself a lot, I choose certain image references that I like and I'm just taking the reference from there. I just think it's easier, it's more efficient for the day to day doing it that way. So we will take hold of the references, we'll leave this aside, the references to the other and we ...”
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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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