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! ”

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“Final Project Now we've reached the last lesson of our course and you should've produced some work to be proud of. Don't worry if it's not as perfect as you imagined. Perseverance and practice will improve your work in leaps and bounds. I would love to see your finished artwork in the Forum in the template, if you prefer, as well as concept sketches and any other images of the work in progress you made. It's helpful to share your work with fellow students to receive encouragement and comments. Everyone can benefit from analysing and commenting on each other's work. Goodbye and thanks for th...”

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Course summary for: Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (155)
• 4213 students
• 5 units
• 20 lessons (4h 19m)
• 15 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Acrylic Painting, Creativity, Painting, Traditional illustration