Color and Lighting Techniques with Acrylic Paint

Color and lighting techniques with acrylic paint

“I invite you to create your own projects, using and mixing the ideas learned within this course, as you are encouraged to make some complex illustration or series of illustrations in which color and shadows are the protagonists. Now that you know them, follow or break the rules to favor the communicational value of the proposal. Next, I am going to review the different phases to follow to develop the final project: Pencil drawing In principle, I suggest you create a simple illustration, in pencil, on a watercolor paper or cardboard. Decide how you want to finish the edge of the illustration (pushing the acrylic to the end, applying tape, or just leaving a white border). It can be an illustration in an open or closed space, in which there is a certain focal length and some elements or characters distributed in the space.

Color palette Then I recommend that you make little miniature versions of the illustration and try different color palettes. Thinking about what you want to communicate, choose the palette that you like the most. Distance You can then begin, from the deepest sector towards the front, to apply the acrylic technique. Make it from thicker to thicker, in order to generate depth and optical distance, taking into account the palette you chose. Volume I suggest you apply the volume on the wet acrylic on those objects or characters in the illustration that you want to highlight. Remember to take into account the geometric shapes that we saw and how their volume changes the way we represent them. Base finish By controlling the contrast, you can finish adding and coloring large or medium elements, adding them to the illustration. In my case, the roof of the house, some bushes ... Details Next, I recommend that, with a fine brush, you add the details to all the possible elements, to generate a more delicate stroke. Lighting Once the base of the illustration is finished, you can test the different lighting points on the thumbnail, choosing which one you are going to use in your project. The point of light can even generate backlights or start from a light source that is within the illustration. With this in mind, you can add shadows with one or more colors to generate a climate effect that harmonizes the illustrated space. Now share your final project with all of us by clicking on "Create your project". Remember to share both the final result of your illustration and the steps that have led you to it. It would be great if you showed a picture of each step and added a brief explanation about what you have done in each one. So I can give you feedback. On the other hand, if in addition to the Domestika community, you want to share your creation with everyone, you can upload photos of them to Instagram with the hashtag #SoleOteroDomestika Thank you very much for joining me in this course. If you liked it, I invite you to visit my previous course, in which I study in greater depth the communicational aspect of each color. I also invite you to participate in the forum, where I will be frequently answering messages and doubts, and reviewing your progress with pleasure. I am excited to see the results of these practices! I also hope that together we can generate a good community in the forum, full of exchanges, and that you are encouraged to comment on the work of your colleagues and receive comments from the rest. Thank you for choosing this course and for joining me within Domestika.”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project In this lesson I will tell you more about the final project. Before we started we were seeing some things as technical data on highlights and shadows or the basic operation of acrylic. And then we started to raise the illustration. We made some small thumbnails of the sketch. We were coloring them to choose the color palette. And then we started directly to apply the acrylic on the illustration marking first a distance and then generating a volume about our main focal point. Then we add details in the illustration with a fine brush and we gave it a final tone that helps us to ...”

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Course summary for: Color and Lighting Techniques with Acrylic Paint

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 16 lessons (3h 7m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Acrylic Painting, Creativity, Painting, Traditional illustration