Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe

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Course overview

Provider
Domestika
Course type
Paid course
Level
Beginner
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
2 hours
Lessons
13 lessons
Certificate
Available on completion
Course author
Jazmin Varela

What colors paint your creative world? When it comes to expressing ourselves, color is a powerful, versatile tool and an exciting challenge to master. Illustrator, cartoonist, and tattoo artist Jazmín Varela specializes in expressing ideas through imagery and color experimentation.

In this course, she teaches you to develop a color library inspired by your own life. The first step to refining your artistic eye is to work on your awareness of what certain colors evoke and then use it to intensify, balance, or break the rules of traditional color theory.

Description

Create your own library of color palettes to apply to your illustrations using mixed techniques

Get to know Jazmín Varela as she talks about her education and her work, then shows you some of her most noteworthy publications. She also shares her main influences and the works of artists that inspire her because of their use of color.

Begin by going over the course materials and some basic concepts to for a better understanding of color properties. Familiarize yourself with the color wheel as a tool for creating color palettes and also look at some of its drawbacks

Next, start to build your color library through exploration and documentation. Do some simple exercises for training your eye before organizing all your tones. Then experiment with different combinations and textures.

Jazmín guides you through how to apply everything you've learned. Finally, see how to enhance a simple color palette followed by a more complex one. Learn to combine colors based on everyday objects as well as associations with concepts and define the dominant, subordinate, and accent colors.

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