Creating Realistic Color: A Primer for Beginners
Kendyll Hillegas
1:11:38
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As a professional illustrator, some of the most common questions I hear from beginning and aspiring artists are related to color:
- "How do you know what color to use?"
- "How can I learn to see more colors in my reference?"
- "How do you mix and match the color you see in a reference?"
- “How can I create realistic color in my own work?”
This class is for anyone who has ever asked these sorts of question about color, or struggled to create realistic color in their own painting.
We’re going to unpack these questions (and others!), and tackle color for traditional media artists in a systematic, comprehensive way. In the class we'll cover 5 essential skills related to color, and will learn to:
- Identify basic color characteristics, like value, saturation and temperature
- Build color harmony & relationships and use the color wheel
- Build a palette and use single-pigment media and blended pigment media
- Use comparison to accurately see the colors in your reference
- Mix colors you see in your reference, and match them in your painting
We’ll have a series of sit down lessons where I’ll unpack each of these concepts, and then a detailed demo where I’ll create a painting from start to finish, explaining all of my color decisions as I go.
This class is best suited for traditional media artists who have some familiarity with drawing, but want to take their skills up a notch and learn how to paint from a reference with realistic, beautiful color.
What You'll Learn?
- Illustration
- Color Theory
- Watercolors
- Painting
- Fine Art
- Creative
- Blended
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Kendyll Hillegas
Instructor's CoursesMy name is Kendyll, and I’m an artist and commercial illustrator working in traditional media. My background is in classical oil painting, but I’ve been working as an illustrator for the past 5 years, completing assignments for Real Simple, Vanity Fair France and The Wall Street Journal.
My illustration is used commercially in packaging, on paper goods and clothing, and in editorial applications, as well as displayed in private and corporate collections worldwide. My work has been featured in Supersonic Art, Anthology Magazine, Creative Boom, DPI Art Quarter and BuzzFeed.
I try to create work that is realistic, but still full of vibrancy and feeling. I'm probably best known for my food and botanical illustration, but I love painting people and animals too! Working with unusual combinations of media to create interesting effects is something I'm really passionate about, and I love experimenting and learning new methods! Passing on what I’ve learned is extremely fulfilling, and it's one of my favorite parts of being a full time artist.
You can learn more about me on my website and FAQ page, and see a list of the classes I'm teaching on Skillshare below.
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My approach to teaching is simple: I try to breakdown and explain complex processes into bite sized concepts that can be practiced and applied to your own work. I do my best to systematically share the techniques I use and how/why they work for me in hopes that you'll be able to develop and deepen your own artistic skills.
My goal is never just to walk you through a project step by step, but to create insight and understanding of artistic principles that will be a foundation for experimentation, expertise and creative expression. In short, I want to teach you how to fish, not give you a fish.
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View courses SkillShare- language english
- Training sessions 11
- duration 1:11:38
- English subtitles has
- Release Date 2024/02/11
