Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration

Overview

“The first step will be to take the chosen thumbnail sketch, blow it up, and print it out. Then, I'll use my lightbox to start refining the sketch and adding important details. I'll go through a few rough sketches until I feel ready to work on a black line drawing.”

In this video lesson Julia Breckenreid addresses the topic: Developing the Idea and Refining the Sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration. Learn to draw, paint, and retouch original illustrations filled with visual metaphors, from the initial sketch to the finished edit.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Developing the Idea and Refining the Sketch In this lesson, we'll look at the thumbnails I'll choose to refine further in rough sketches and eventually into a lion drawing. Looking at the thumbnails that we went through before, I'll talk about why I'm choosing the ones that I think are the best ones to go with. As you recall, at the top here, in this top row, I was figuring things out by looking at how I could portray the tailor. Did it seem to say something further? Was it the message that I wanted to give? It wasn't quite there yet, but as soon as I hit on this where I was looking at th...”

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Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration

• Level: Beginner
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• 648 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 15m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Painting, Traditional illustration