Scientific Illustration for Pattern Design
Digital line drawing of beetle
A course by Diana Flores Blazquez , Scientific Illustrator
Joined February 2020
About the video: Digital line drawing of beetle
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to teach you to prepare the work area in photoshop to be able to import our elements in pencil, we are going to clean our sketches and we will draw the line of their contours using a digital brush. ”
In this video lesson Diana Flores Blazquez addresses the topic: Digital line drawing of beetle, which is part of the Domestika online course: Scientific Illustration for Pattern Design. Learn analog and digital techniques to design illustrated patterns with a protagonist: the beetle.
Partial transcription of the video
“Drawing in Digital Lines This lesson, I'll teach you how to set up your workspace on Photoshop to start to make the outline with digital lines using the brush we designed in a previous lesson. Let's start. First, we open Photoshop and click on the button Create New Document. The option windows will open and we'll name the file Elements. We'll start to work the elements of our pattern. We'll create the outlines and add color to our beetles. I'll make it 30 cm wide, I'll change the units to centimeters. I'll leave them both in centimeters, length and width. Since it's a square, orientation do...”
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Course summary for: Scientific Illustration for Pattern Design
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Pattern Design, Traditional illustration

Diana Flores Blazquez
A course by Diana Flores Blazquez
Diana Flores Blázquez is a Mexican visual artist and illustrator who mainly works in digital scientific illustration. She graduated from a Master's degree in illustration five years ago and developed her brand project, which is inspired by nature and real species to create elements of decoration and design. Since then, she has been working with private clients, institutions, and companies looking to bring the natural sciences to a wide variety of visual and artistic outlets.
Her clients range from people interested in a particular species to institutions and research centers, as well as stores and design brands. Diana has worked with UNAM and UAM in Mexico, the University of Campeche, and with brands such as Pineda Covalín.
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