By Aaron Blaise
In this tutorial, artist Aaron Blaise shows you how to add local color to a drawing. Local color is the color of an object without any shadows or highlights.
You will learn how to:
- rough in a background color and add clouds
- add color to each element in the image, using different layers
- add warms and cools to the local color of an element
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