Color Theory: How to Apply It to Your Images
A course by Jean Fraisse , Concept Artist and Art Director
Learn how to master color and raise the visual quality of your illustrations
Learn how to master color and raise the visual quality of your illustrations
Color is a powerful tool for telling a story, honing the theory behind it enables you to develop a solid and striking illustration for animation or concept art. Jean Fraisse is a professional with a wide range of experience in animation and video games, and in this course, he teaches you how to use color like never before.
Become an expert in the theory of color and its practical application for your compositions. See how to bring harmony into your illustrations or concept art. Tell stories with your images, learn how to bring light into your work, and create a specific atmosphere and style by selecting the ideal color combinations, learning how to compose with color.
This is Jean Fraisse’s fourth course on Domestika. If you’d like to learn how to design characters for animation, take a look at Introduction to Design of Characters for Animation and Video Games. If you want to learn how to adapt your illustrations to animation, see Illustration for Animation Projects and Video Games, and to create stunningly atmospheric worlds for animation, see Concept Art: Introduction to Set Design.
What will you learn in this online course?
18 lessons & 32 downloads
- 100% positive reviews (1K)
- 29,513 students
- 18 lessons (3h 53m)
- 32 additional resources (11 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Recommended software for this course
Adobe PhotoshopWhat is this course's project?
Create a series of colored images with different finishes, using the same elements and a common theme for them all.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
For all types of illustrators and all those interested in studying color to apply it to graphical, analogical, or digital projects.
Requirements and materials
No previous knowledge is necessary to take this course, but knowing how to use Adobe Photoshop at a basic level will come in handy.
As for materials, you’ll need a computer with Photoshop installed.
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A course by Jean Fraisse
Once he finished his studies in graphic design in Paris (France), and got rejected from renowned animation schools, Jean Fraisse decided to learn about illustration on his own and began applying it to his work for advertising agencies. It was then that he decided to get into freelance work and started working for major clients such as Marinela and Televisa.
In 2015, he got in touch with HuevoCartoon, a widely-recognized Mexican animation studio, where he worked as their Art Director and Production Designer for over five years.
Today, part of his time involves sharing his knowledge and showing others how he learned illustration and animation through a project called Canvas. In the last eight years, he has also taught classes in several schools and workshops.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation (Who am I)
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Influences
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What will we do in the course?
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U2
Color for concept (4 million colors)
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You are already an expert in color
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Create stories with color and contrasts
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Understand the light to be able to illuminate
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Step by step of creating a color concept
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U3
Illustration color (50 colors)
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Success and failure of an image
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Looking for harmony
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Looking for harmony II
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Rhythm and balance
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Textures: what they are for and how to generate them
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History, the perfect pretext to add color
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U4
Graphic color (10 colors)
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The power of simplicity
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Color theory ... finally
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Color theory ... finally II
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The secret ingredients: temperature and saturation
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BONUS: Solving Common Color Problems
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FP
Final project
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Color theory: how to apply it to your images
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FAQs
Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
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vicchristod
very useful and enjoyable course! 100% recommended
laurasoriatorres
PlusEs un super curso, muy didáctico. Me gusta mucho los ejemplos que usa donde, incluso, nos muestra sus errores para aprender de ellos. Super!
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sarated2000
This course helped me so much to understand color theory's basics and details I wasn't able to grasp - until now! Absolutely recommended.
animateo.yt
muy bueno
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dpsantanam
PlusUn tesoro para entender muchos conceptos de forma muy clara y sobretodo práctica
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