Storytelling through Watercolor Illustration

Overview

“As a way to start working on a first idea or concept, I will show you the preliminary sketch process, which I also call “brainstorming”; a step in which we will focus only on throwing stripes, without complex or elaborate drawings, only beginning to think about the things that you would like to narrate or express. ”

In this video lesson Daniela López Marín addresses the topic: Preliminary sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Storytelling through Watercolor Illustration. Learn to capture the moment by creating a visual work that tells a story.

Partial transcription of the video

“Preliminary sketches In this lesson we will make preliminary sketches. In my illustration process, I usually start doing loose drawing or brainstorming. This helps me start creating or kneading something much more concrete. I will only use a paste pencil or any type of pencil, which will only help me to capture the idea and things that I would like to do, but I'm not so sure. Using our bond sheet, I will start to just draw, it doesn't have to be something pretty or that it is well done, they are just ideas. What helps me to do this exercise is to be able to let go and start to ruminate or c...”

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Course summary for: Storytelling through Watercolor Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (100)
• 1908 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 26m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Manga, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting