Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration
Outlining
A course by Jon Berkeley , Illustrator and Author
About the video: Outlining
Overview
“Now you’re ready to start working on your finished illustration. Using a lightbox is a quick way to transfer the outline of your working drawing to your heavy paper. If you don’t have a lightbox you can transfer it with the aid of a grid. Neither method is essential, but if you draw freehand you need to be confident that you don’t lose all the hard work you put into perfecting the composition. I like to paint in the principal outlines with thinned paint and a fine brush. Pencil lines can soon begin to disappear beneath the paint, so this gives a bolder outline to work from. ”
In this video lesson Jon Berkeley addresses the topic: Outlining, which is part of the Domestika online course: Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration. Use your imagination to develop a conceptual illustration from start to finish using acrylic paints.
Partial transcription of the video
“Outlining In this lesson, we'll transfer our working sketch to our art paper in order to embark on our finished painting, making use of the light box here. There is an alternative method in the Additional Resources at the end of this lesson, but for now we'll use the light box. As you see, the layout paper that we used for the working sketch is fine and allows the light to come through strongly so we can clearly see the drawing. And even when we put our heavy art paper, our 300 pound paper on top of this, you can see quite clearly the drawing showing through. Now, we make sure we position i...”
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Course summary for: Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Acrylic Painting, Creativity, Painting, Traditional illustration
Jon Berkeley
A course by Jon Berkeley
Jon Berkeley is an Irish illustrator and children’s author who has worked in the field for almost three decades and traveled to places like London, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Barcelona for illustration work. His passion for illustration began in his youth during the vinyl era, amazed by the artwork that adorned his favorite album covers, prompting him to further his intrigue and study Fine Art in Dublin, Ireland.
Most of his work is for editorial clients in major news and current affairs magazines like L’Express, The New Statesman, Volkskrant, The Economist, and others. He also works on major advertising campaigns and illustrates book jackets, packaging, as well as commissioned portraits for clients like Ted Baker, Vodafone, and Smirnoff.
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