Natural Illustration with Digital Painting

X Narrative illustration and botanical painting

“We’ve reached the final lesson in this course! I’ve loved having you as my students and sharing more of my process than I ever have before. It can be a bittersweet thing when something comes to a close: sad for leaving one project behind, but exciting to start implementing the tools we’ve learned into our own unique practice. Remember to listen to yourself and draw what you love. When you bring your own unique voice into your work, you can’t go wrong. Learning a new technique doesn’t mean you have to follow it exactly. Incorporate the things you’ve enjoyed, and leave out the parts that don’t feel like you. Your creative practice should be entirely your own: not borrowing or copying exactly, but making something new, fresh, and exciting. Now for your final project! After you’ve fine-tuned your adjustment layers and played around with some mock-up templates, please share what you’ve come up with. I’d love to see the process of your final illustration. Here's an example of how you can present it: Sketch

Graphite texture Solid color shape Final illustration I’m happy to share my feedback as often as I can, although I do spend most of my time drawing for my clients and myself. I encourage you to leave comments and feedback to your fellow classmates, as well. This is a learning environment, and it is appropriate here to share your compliments and critiques with each other. Keep in mind being respectful of one another, and temper every critical comment with a positive and encouraging one. We’re all here to learn and grow together. I hate goodbyes, so I’ll keep this short: It was wonderful to have you as my students, and I look forward to seeing where your own unique voice takes you. ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project We're at the end of this course. This was a wonderful experience and I hope you've enjoyed it too. Before we part, let's go over what we learned. In the beginning, I shared a bit about myself, my work and my favorite projects to date. I showed you a few of my inspirations and influences, from medieval times to naturalist artists. Next, we covered how to come up with ideas for what to draw. I shared my meticulous note-taking strategy and how to make a mind map to fill out our ideas. We discussed collecting reference images and creating mood boards to further develop our concept...”

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Course summary for: Natural Illustration with Digital Painting

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (297)
• 6243 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 10m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration