Negative Watercolor Painting for Botanical Illustration

Overview

“Once the general layers are finished, I will explain how I do the details. We will work on the veins of the leaves and flowers and lighting. You will learn some tricks that will help you give your illustration even more effect. ”

In this video lesson Cristina Cilloniz addresses the topic: Details, which is part of the Domestika online course: Negative Watercolor Painting for Botanical Illustration. Learn how to paint botanical pieces that are full of life with a technique ideal for creating depth effects.

Partial transcription of the video

“Details Once I've finished applying the color layers to the lavender flowers, we'll now work on the details, the veins, some little tricks that I like to use to lift the image off the page. You can add detail as many times as you want, whenever you want. It's personal taste and you can do whatever you want to achieve. I'm going to start with the veins of the leaves. I already showed you this in the practical exercise for loosening the hand, we just repeat the same thing. What I like to do is draw a simple line in the pigment and use water to dilute it. You can make it more marked or more di...”

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Course summary for: Negative Watercolor Painting for Botanical Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (1312)
• 21232 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (1h 48m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting