Duration: 152 minutes

The prossess of telling stories through pictures is similar for both concept design and book illustration. In this video, film design veteran Christian Alzmann will take you through a step-by-step process for making a digital illustration. He will demonstrate his techniques for creating strong conpisitions, blocking in shapes with light and shadow, handling background elements and applying color. Throughtout the lecture, Christian shares his thought proocesses as he reworks compositional elements, renders reflected light and strengthens the main character's pose, showing you the benefits of painting digitally in Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter.