Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture
Noise and end effects
A course by Sergio Edwards , Illustrator
About the video: Noise and end effects
Overview
“To finish and on all the adjustments, we will use a layer of noise or grain to give more texture to the illustration. In this lesson I will show you how to do it.”
In this video lesson Sergio Edwards addresses the topic: Noise and end effects, 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
“Noise and end effects In this video we will give the final touches to our image. We only have one last squeeze to finish the graph and it would be a couple of layers of noise. This will enrich the image by making it appear as if it were a photographic print, like the burning of the photographs or what in photography is called ISO, which is this grain. Then we will make that grain, we will choose a 100% black color, we will paint the "layer", we will duplicate it and we will choose the inverse color with Control + I. Then it will be white. For the white color, we reduce the opacity to 50%. I...”
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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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