Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe

A course by Jazmin Varela , Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Tattoo Artist

Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Tattoo Artist. Eastsound, Argentina.
Joined July 2020

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

98% positive reviews (144)
2,717 students
Audio: Spanish
Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch

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

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.

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What will you learn in this online course?

13 lessons & 18 downloads

Materials
3 minutes, 19 seconds
Color: the basics
2 minutes, 56 seconds
Color gym: train the look
14 minutes, 38 seconds
Personal Color Library
14 minutes, 1 second
  • 98% positive reviews (144)
  • 2,717 students
  • 13 lessons (2h 10m)
  • 18 additional resources (8 files)
  • Online and at your own pace
  • Available on the app
  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
  • Unlimited access forever

What is this course's project?

Compile your own catalogue of colors and explore their application over a range of illustrations.

Projects by course students

Who is this online course for?

Illustrators, sketch artists, graphic artists, and anyone interested in enriching their perception and use of color.

Requirements and materials

Some basic knowledge of drawing and use of acrylics, gouache, pencils, or watercolor crayons would be ideal although not essential.

In terms of materials, you need a heavyweight paper sketchbook suitable for a range of techniques, your preferred artistic materials, and a camera or smartphone.


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2,717 Students
144 Reviews
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Jazmin Varela

A course by Jazmin Varela

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Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Tattoo Artist

Jazmín Varela is an illustrator, cartoonist, and tattoo artist. She has been working as an editorial illustrator since 2010 and works on personal projects for exhibitions in parallel. In 2018, she also started to tattoo in her own studio.

Some of her published works include Crisis capila (Editorial Municipal de Rosario 2016), Guerra de soda (Maten al Mensajero, 2017), Tengo unas flores con tu nombre (Maten al Mensajero, 2018), and Cotillón (Maten al Mensajero y Sigilo España, 2020). She is an integral part of the Cuadrilla Feminista, a graphic artist collective from Rosario, and cofounder of the Festival Furioso de Dibujo.


Content

  • U1

    Introduction

    • Presentation
    • Influences
  • U2

    How to prepare before you start

    • Materials
    • Color: the basics
    • The inaccuracies of the color wheel
  • U3

    Documentation and training

    • Color gym: train the look
    • Personal Color Library
    • Personal Color Library: Experimental Sections
  • U4

    Apply and assemble your palettes

    • Enhance a simple palette
    • Enhance a complex palette
    • Still life: everyday objects
    • Night scenery
    • Crowd: wide palette
  • FP

    Final project

    • Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe

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    Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.

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    Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.

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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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Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe. Illustration course by Jazmin Varela

Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe

A course by Jazmin Varela
Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Tattoo Artist. Eastsound, Argentina.
Joined July 2020
  • 98% positive reviews (144)
  • 2,717 students