Sketchbook Illustration for Collecting Ideas
Polishing Tips for finishing touches
A course by Catalina Bu , Illustrator
About the video: Polishing Tips for finishing touches
Overview
“Now that you have your image, I'll briefly show you how to post-produce your illustration. They are simple steps, but it is worth showing you how to prepare an illustration, from cleaning errors, retouching, to everything you need to publish it and adapt it to a product or printing press.”
In this video lesson Catalina Bu addresses the topic: Polishing Tips for finishing touches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook Illustration for Collecting Ideas. Learn how to create detailed illustrations by experimenting and revealing your ideas.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson. i'll show you how I retouch an image. I often use an iPad. but honestly. i stick to basic editing tools. The benefit is that my illustrations are usually black and white. allowing me to perform digital retouching using the phone's default app. This simplicity works well for my needs. as it effectively handles the black and white conversion. To achieve a black-and-white version of my digitized photo. i often rely on an iPad or dedicated software such as Photoshop. Once I have imported the image. the initial step involves converting it to grayscale using either the built-in iP...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbook Illustration for Collecting Ideas
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook

Catalina Bu
A course by Catalina Bu
Catalina Bustos Mendoza, better known on social media as Catalina Bu, is a Chilean illustrator who is passionate about drawing and uses simple strokes to express big ideas and tell complex stories. She currently works as an illustrator for numerous publishers, brands and companies.
She has written four books (Diario de un Solo 1 and 2, Libro Libre and En Blanco) and co-authored another three (Gatos Gordos, Solo Necesito un perro and Un espacio vacío); her books have been translated to French and Portuguese. Her work also has been featured in individual and collective exhibits in Santiago de Chile, Madrid, Mexico City, Shanghai, New York and Bologna.
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