From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Color

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Textures, marks, dashes, and dots

Textures, marks, dashes, and dots

From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Color

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Textures, marks, dashes, and dots

- Color is not always a flat, perfectly consistent tone. It can have bumps and particles if it's a patch of color or uneven if it's a wash. It can be applied with Photoshop in a category of filters and textures and graphically. Color can be applied in layers of shapes large and small. Like people, texture and variation makes marks of color interesting. Let's look at the variations of textural color from Wet-Media acrylic paint with multiple layers of opaque and transparent color. Gouache using strings of color. Watercolor applying kosher salt for less controlled application. Or oils using the physical thickness of the paint for textural variation. Now let's review some textural color and dry media. Pastel sticks and pencils using the grain of the pastel stick against the paper. Color pencils lets the color weave with a variety of textures that a pencil can make. And ink pens though the ink is wet, there's very little blending as a wet medium. Pen application of textural color is…

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