Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration
Scan and Enhance Your Illustration
A course by Jon Berkeley , Illustrator and Author
About the video: Scan and Enhance Your Illustration
Overview
“An A3 size flatbed scanner is a very useful tool, but at that size they tend to fall into the professional price bracket. Most standard office printers these days feature a decent quality A4 scanner, however. In this lesson, you will learn to scan larger artwork in sections and stitch it together in Photoshop.”
In this video lesson Jon Berkeley addresses the topic: Scan and Enhance Your Illustration, 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
“Scan and Enhance Your Illustration Now let's see how to scan your artwork and prepare it for reproduction. If you need to scan your artwork in more than one section because it's too large for the scanner, remember to leave as much overlap as possible when you're scanning, because on the edge of the glass, the paper will lift up a bit and lose focus, so we'll need margin in order to stitch it together successfully in Photoshop. We have here our artwork already scanned and as you can see, it's turned 180 degrees in order to do the two sides. This is also important. If you turn your artwork ni...”
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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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