Natural Illustration with Digital Painting
Digital Painting: Blocking in Solid Color Shapes
A course by Jessica Roux , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Digital Painting: Blocking in Solid Color Shapes
Overview
“Once our graphite pencil drawing is done, it’s time to scan it in and get to coloring! I’ll show you how I scan my work and the first steps of putting color down digitally: I always start with simple shapes.”
In this video lesson Jessica Roux addresses the topic: Digital Painting: Blocking in Solid Color Shapes, 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
“Digital Painting: Blocking in Solid Color Shapes With our completed graphite drawing, we'll move on to blocking in solid color shapes using Photoshop. Let's do it. The next step is to scan in our graphite pencil drawing. Personally, I like to scan in my artwork rather than photographing it because it is small and it has a lot of details and they're easily picked up by a quality scanner. When I scan in my work, I typically select 600 to 1200 DPI depending on what the final artwork is used for. This one, I scanned in at 1200 DPI. Scanning it in at a higher resolution, increases the dimensions...”
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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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