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Color Sketch in Photoshop: California Sundown

🖼️ Build foundational sketching skills that lead straight to confident plein air painting. In this two-part Photoshop demo, Tayler Olivas shows you how to create compelling two-tone black & white sketches from photo reference—then transition into expressive color studies.

You’ll learn how to:
🖌️ Simplify photo references into strong black & white sketches
🌫️ Adjust atmosphere and background to support your composition
🎨 Move from monochrome to color with subtle, intentional value shifts
🔍 Train your eye to anticipate patterns and structure in landscapes

Foresight is everything—this lesson builds the visual instincts that translate directly to plein air success.
🕒 Runtime: 1+ hour
🔒 Available exclusively to Pro Artists Club members

  • Tayler Olivas

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Tayler Olivas

Tayler is a Visual Development Artist, Art Director, and professor in the film and games industry. Tayler's work has been showcased in numerous games, cinematics, and marketing materials for brands like Gucci, Team Fight Tactics, Spider-Man 2, Insomniac Games, Riot Games and Elodie. When not working on client projects, Tayler teaches at Laguna College of Art and Design in Southern California.

Tayler's expertise spans various digital media, including Adobe Photoshop CC, Blender, Zbrush, 3DCoat, Substance Painter, and Marmoset Toolbag, as well as traditional media like gouache, watercolor, oil paint, and markers (Copic and Prismacolor). Tayler holds a bachelor's degree in game art from Laguna College of Art and Design, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

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