Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture
Direct light and final painting (part 2)
A course by Sergio Edwards , Illustrator
About the video: Direct light and final painting (part 2)
Overview
“In this video we will finish painting the layers using direct light sources.”
In this video lesson Sergio Edwards addresses the topic: Direct light and final painting (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
“Direct light There we can see that the hose is much more integrated. Before it was only one color. Finally that's what reflections do, they make the elements converse, so to speak, with each other and they are not separate. And I like to go painting on one side, then on the other. Before I forget it, I want to make some irregularities in the earth. I think this floor is too flat. So I am adding certain irregularities, for example, there, I can add another one there to make the scene more realistic. So since there is a relief here, I have to go to the bottom layer and be consistent with the ...”
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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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