Natural Illustration with Digital Painting
Sketching
A course by Jessica Roux , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Sketching
Overview
“Let’s start sketching! I’ll share with you how I move from simple blob shapes into a more refined line drawing. This becomes the framework for our illustration.”
In this video lesson Jessica Roux addresses the topic: Sketching, 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
“Sketching In the last lesson, I showed you a variety of graphite pencil techniques that you can use in your finished illustration. In this lesson, I'll show you how to create a sketch, the first step in your final project. Let's get sketching. I love to sketch digitally in Photoshop. This way lets me change things easily and quickly. Working in layers lets me add in, or remove elements as needed. One reason why we don't want to sketch directly onto our nice printmaking paper is because we make a lot of changes in our sketches and constant erasing will damage a finely textured paper. Another...”
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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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