Natural Illustration with Digital Painting
Researching Concepts and Ideas
A course by Jessica Roux , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Researching Concepts and Ideas
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll cover how I choose what I want to draw, what part of the story to tell first, and where I start. Making a mind map is a great way to get your ideas onto paper and pick which path you want to follow. ”
In this video lesson Jessica Roux addresses the topic: Researching Concepts and Ideas, which is part of the Domestika online course: Natural Illustration with Digital Painting. Transform a botanical pencil sketch into a digital illustration using the storytelling properties of color.
Partial transcription of the video
“Researching Concepts and Ideas Now that you know how to come up with some ideas for telling a story, in this lesson, I'll show you how to use a mind map to narrow down those ideas. Using a mind map is a great way to narrow down our ideas, so we can focus on what's important in the drawing. Let's say, I want to focus on a folklore story. It can be difficult to narrow down what to do as there are many different ideas you can focus on. Even a regular boring story, can be made exciting by using a mind map. For my story, I'll be focusing on Ratatoskr. He's a squirrel messenger from Norse mytholo...”
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Course summary for: Natural Illustration with Digital Painting
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration
Jessica Roux
A course by Jessica Roux
Jessica Roux is an American freelance illustrator and self-described plant and animal enthusiast. She has been drawing and painting since she was a child when her parents would set up easels in her backyard. She also spent a lot of time exploring the woods in North Carolina, which sparked her love of nature at an early age. Jessica went on to study illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design and, after graduating, began working as a freelance illustrator, combining her love of illustration and nature.
Since then, Jessica’s designs have been transformed into everything from prints to stickers and cards, and she has illustrated various books, including one of her own, Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers. Her work has also appeared in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as publications including The New Yorker and Taproot Magazine.
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