Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration

Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration

“So here we are at the end of our course. Thank you so much for joining us. I had a great time showing you my working method and I truly hope that what we’ve put here together has given you a solid foundation in producing illustrations with acrylic. Now I would like you to make your own unique illustration following the steps, tips and tricks we have seen throughout the course. Let’s walk through the steps you’ll need to achieve this.

The first step, once you have already made sketching a habit and feel comfortable enough with the painting techniques I have showed you, is to start conceptualizing your sketch ideas from your source material. After the brief is thoroughly absorbed, it’s time to put that pencil to work and turn your verbal or written ideas into visual ones. The next step is to block in the illustration to establish volume, lighting, and basic colour. Once our image is fully mapped out we will get to work on the foreground elements. We will wrap this up by enhancing whatever highlights, shadows, and edges that need a final touch to make your image really stand out, finishing off by scanning and printing our illustration. We will wrap this up by enhancing whatever highlights or corners and edges that need a final layer of work to make it stand out, finishing off by scanning and printing our illustration. And there we have it. Please do share the results of your work on the forum. I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with. Please bear in mind that I might not be able to answer your questions right away, but I will look into our community as frequently as possible. Let your imagination fly, and make sure you enjoy yourself in the process! Bye! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“So now we've reached the last lesson of our course and you should have produced some work that you can rightly be proud of. Don't worry if it hasn't reached the level of perfection you had imagined. As with anything, perseverance and practice will see your work improve in leaps and bounds. I would love to see your finished artwork uploaded to the forum. In the template if you prefer. as well as some concept sketches and any other images of the work in progress that you have made. It can be very helpful to share your work with your fellow students and to receive encouragement and comments fr...”

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Course summary for: Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (155)
• 4247 students
• 5 units
• 20 lessons (4h 19m)
• 15 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Acrylic Painting, Creativity, Painting, Traditional illustration