Drawing and Collage for Editorial Illustration

Overview

“You will make the first strokes or skeleton of the final drawing using a hard pencil, you will also use the type cleaner to polish and shape that first sketch of the drawing. As you finish the drawing, you will see how to use pencils of different hardnesses, going from the hardest to the softest to generate different values, lights and shadows. I'll explain how to use the Type Cleaner to subtly polish certain edges, illuminate, and create textures. I will also teach you other uses and ways to apply graphite. ”

In this video lesson Samuel Castaño addresses the topic: Drawing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing and Collage for Editorial Illustration. Learn how to conceptualize a written piece into an image filled with intricate detail by combining techniques and styles.

Partial transcription of the video

“He drew Having traced the drawing on the paper, we will move on to the drawing as such. Normally after transferring the drawing to paper, I use the type cleaner to remove the intensity of the first strokes and make them a little clearer to move on to drawing. I normally use a 2H pencil, a hard and clear pencil. I begin to fill in some areas of the drawing, of the figure doing really very little pressure. The idea is to stroke the paper with the pencil, pass it very over to build a first layer on top of which we will make others. The first strokes are never the end nor do they pretend to be,...”

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Course summary for: Drawing and Collage for Editorial Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (59)
• 974 students
• 4 units
• 12 lessons (1h 8m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Collage, Digital Drawing, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration