Naturalist Illustrations with Watercolors: Drawing and Composition
Drawing exercises 1
A course by Cristina Cilloniz , Botanical Illustrator
Joined November 2017
Joined November 2017
About the video: Drawing exercises 1
Overview
“In this lesson I will make a pencil sketch based on what I chose on the mood board. I will teach you with different exercises to lose your fear of drawing by doing exercises to release the hand, measurement techniques, drawing and I will explain some basic composition concepts.”
In this video lesson Cristina Cilloniz addresses the topic: Drawing exercises 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Naturalist Illustrations with Watercolors: Drawing and Composition. Learn illustration techniques to give life to animals, insects, and botanical elements.
Partial transcription of the video
“Drawing exercises In this lesson,we will work on drawing and composition exercises. We will work on the elements that we chose in the mood board and then I’ll teach you to draw them, lose your fear by using guidelines, geometric shapes, and details. I will start with an exercise, the simplest thing I chose for my illustration. In this case, they are ginkgo leaves. It is super important that from now on you always stop and look, think before putting it on paper. Some recommendations. For example, here I have the photo of the leaf that I want to illustrate. I begin to analyze what its shapes ...”
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Course summary for: Naturalist Illustrations with Watercolors: Drawing and Composition
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Cristina Cilloniz
A course by Cristina Cilloniz
For Cristina Cilloniz, watercolor was a source of creativity and growth at a crucial moment in her life. An architect by profession and passionate about nature, she decided to change the trajectory of her life in 2016, when she began to dedicate herself exclusively to botanical watercolor illustration and turned it into a tool to explore, heal and share.
He has collaborated with renowned brands such as L'Occitane, Patagonia and Faber-Castell in different formats: stationery products, wallpapers, fabrics and wood.
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