Skills You’ll Learn
Coloring Workflow
Learn how to color your illustration from start to finish.
Laying Down Colors
Learn how to lay down different layers of colors.
Detailing
Learn how to add details to your drawings.
Illustration Postproduction
Learn how to render your drawings in high quality.
WHAT IS THIS CLASS ABOUT?
Colors can really help bring out the life in illustrations, but it is also often daunting. We will teach you how to understand color harmony, the different rendering styles of a character's features from their hair, skin, clothes, and tips and tricks regarding rendering!
WHO IS THIS CLASS FOR?
This course is for anyone interested in rendering characters! Color completes an illustration, an essential tool to bring out form, value, and contrast!
WHAT WILL THE STUDENTS ACHIEVE?
By the end of this course, you will have a deeper understanding of colors, how they work together, and how you can apply this within your illustrations. Upon completion, you will have created a rendered character illustration!
Curriculum
WELCOME
Welcome
1. Meet Your Instructor
01:31
2. Introduction to the course
03:32
3. Introduction to the program
07:03
1
How to Choose Color Palettes
1. Blending Tips and Techniques
11:49
2. Understanding the Color Wheel to choose Color Palettes
14:05
2
Skin
1. Skin tones—Distribution of Blush and Shadows on the Face
18:05
2. Different Types of Skin Tones and Color Palettes
23:12
3. Eyes - Pupils
15:25
4. Eyes - Eyelashes and Eyebrows
16:53
3
Hair
1. Understanding Hair in Shapes
12:45
2. Creating Depth and Value with Color
11:50
3. Detailing with Colors
12:25
4
Clothes
1. Cloth Folds—Understanding and Translating References into your Illustrations
12:00
2. Blocking Out Shadows and Highlights
10:10
3. Detailing Part 1 - ‘Chiseling’
15:28
4. Detailing Part 2 - Adding Colors
08:23
5
Skin pt. 2 (Hands)
1. Hands —Understanding and Translating References into your Illustrations
11:32
2. Skin Tones of the Hand
23:00
6
Postproduction Touch-Ups
1. Layer Blending Modes
05:23
2. Photoshop Filters and Features
09:12
OUTRO
Outro
1. Congratulations on Completing the Course
00:47
Creator
Cykedelia
Hello!
You can refer to me as Cy or Cykedelia.
I am a freelance artist based in the US, and I mainly focus on drawing my original characters, with the occasional fanart. You could say that my characters have been the biggest motivation for my art career. I had a simple goal--to illustrate these characters the best I could to present them to people!
I was fascinated with colors more than others because of the way it influences an artwork. The atmosphere, form, and value can all be determined more effectively by colors. In a way, I see art as a means to an end, not necessarily the end itself. I am grateful for this opportunity to share what I have learned to others.
cykedelia