Illustration

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Environment as Character: Create Colorful and Lively Worlds

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Skills You’ll Learn

Perspective 101

You’ll get out of this course with a solid knowledge of perspective to push you forward

Composition Fundamentals

You’ll learn what makes a good composition, the different tools you can use, what pitfalls to avoid, how to study composition and incorporate it into your work.

Color Galore

You’ll get familiar with the fundamentals of color, and at the end of the course you’ll be able to make efficient and strong color choices

Design an Environment based illustration from A to Z

How to approach environment design, research and execute an illustration from start to finish

Class Summary

In this class, we will go through the fundamentals of color and composition, as well as principles of design in order to create evocative illustrations and universes. Through multiple examples, we’ll analyze what makes an environment stand up as a character of its own, and how to think creatively about worldbuilding. Finally, we’ll use two different creative approaches to create a full illustration from start to finish.

This Class Is For

This class is for anyone from beginner to intermediate, who is curious to expand their knowledge on environments and backgrounds, even if they are not good at it, to begin with. If you struggle with those topics, this class will give you guidelines and tools to approach them in ways you had not before. If you are already familiar, this class will further your skills and help you to develop and affirm your style.

Class Takeaways

At the end of this class, students will have a solid basic knowledge of color theory, composition, as well as environmental design. They will acquire the tools and fundamentals to enrich their own creative processes.


Composition and Perspective

Color Theory

World-Building and Digital Painting Process

Curriculum

WELCOME

Welcome

1. Meet Your Instructor

03:18

2. Course Introduction

03:21

1

Perspective 101

1. The Illusion of Depth

08:35

2. Different Kinds of Perspective

18:26

3. How to Setup Perspective

21:48

4. Common Mistakes

10:37

5. Useful Tools and Books

15:46

6. How to Study Perspective

12:58

2

Composition

1. The Importance of Efficient Composition

12:28

2. The Focal Area

16:22

3. Chaos vs Order

12:15

4. Balance and Contrast

10:39

5. The Importance of Thumbnails

10:39

6. Studying Composition

14:57

3

Color

1. Light 101: Lighting Fundamentals

14:41

2. Color Is Relative: A Game of Contrast

10:48

3. Key Concepts: Hue, Saturation, Value, Temperature

18:43

4. Value Structure and Greyscale

13:10

5. Color and Inducing Mood

12:05

6. How to Find Inspiration and Set Up Efficient Color Schemes

12:09

4

Environment as Character

1. Character Design vs Environment Design

11:57

2. Ideation & Silhouette

15:36

3. Case Study

12:36

4. Believability: Architecture Anatomy

16:33

5

References and inspiration

1. The importance of references and how to use them

13:52

2. Gathering References, Tips and Tricks

16:48

3. Moodboards and Tailor Your References to Your Projects

10:44

6

Process 1 Illustration From a Set Idea

1. Storyline And References

11:36

2. Value Compositions

10:44

3. Color Comps

12:31

4. Final Sketch

12:27

5. Coloring

20:20

6. Last Adjustments

12:51

7

Process 2 Illustration Starting From a Study

1. Reference and value comp

11:46

2. color study

10:25

3. Extrapolation, sketch, color

33:53

4. Last Adjustments

20:17

8

Creativity and Fear

1. How I Get Creative

31:08

2. Impostor Syndrome

15:26

3. Failures as Stepping Stones

24:20

4. Becoming a Student for Life

17:40

OUTRO

Outro

1. Best Wishes and Parting Words

06:18

Creator

lichenslumber

lichenslumber

Hello! My name is Aymeric, I’m a french vis dev artist and illustrator, currently working in the animation industry as a background artist! I Love creating rich images where people can get lost into. I’ve always had a fascination for Ruins and nature and wanted to become an artist. I have lots of things to talk to you about, I hope you are as eager as I am!

lichenslumber

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