Natural Illustration with Digital Painting
Starting the Graphite Drawing
A course by Jessica Roux , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Starting the Graphite Drawing
Overview
“Using the graphite techniques we mastered at the end of the unit "Developing Concepts and Sketches," we’ll start our pencil drawing. We'll start by transferring our sketch onto paper via a lightbox, then we'll move onto capturing the texture and feel for each element in the piece. ”
In this video lesson Jessica Roux addresses the topic: Starting the Graphite Drawing, 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
“Starting the Graphite Drawing Now that we have a finished sketch, in this lesson, we'll create the graphite drawing for your final project. I have my lightbox in front of me and I'll place a printed-out sketch. Then we'll tape our finished paper on top. Now, there are two different sides to Rives BFK. There's a nice smooth side and on the reverse, it looks grid-like. We'll use the smoother side today. The lightbox allows us to see our finished sketch through the paper so we can easily transfer it. We'll start by making light lines. We don't want to press too firmly on the paper so that we'l...”
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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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