Illustration and Character Development with Watercolor
Materials
A course by Valentina Armstrong , Designer and Illustrator
Joined May 2020
Joined May 2020
About the video: Materials
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you the materials that you will use in the course, and I will give you some recommendations of the brands that have worked well for me in my work. ”
In this video lesson Valentina Armstrong addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration and Character Development with Watercolor. Learn to create and draw characters with unique identities by experimenting with watercolors and colored pencils.
Partial transcription of the video
“Materials In this lesson I'll show you the materials that we'll use to develop our project. I have two types of watercolor. In the course we'll use tubes. I have the Van Gogh, Sennelier, and Cotman from Winsor & Newton. Of these three brands, the Sennelier I have here is better value for money than the Van Gogh and for the amount of pigment that each color has. Another thing that I like about this brand is that it has a square that indicates how much the color covers. So, with this green, the full black square means that it's a really intense green, when you use the brush it won't be th...”
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Course summary for: Illustration and Character Development with Watercolor
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Valentina Armstrong
A course by Valentina Armstrong
Valentina Armstrong is a designer and illustrator that has worked with brands like Basement, Aschehoug & Co, La Bonita Ediciones, and Sybilla. She specializes in creating illustrations using watercolors and other techniques like colored pencils to add accents.
She bases her characters on real-life people and captures their imperfect reality with watercolors and pencils. Both common traits and unique features are sources of inspiration that Valentina uses to imagine each character's inner world.
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