Naturalist Illustrations with Watercolors: Drawing and Composition
Shadows and volume
A course by Cristina Cilloniz , Botanical Illustrator
Joined November 2017
Joined November 2017
About the video: Shadows and volume
Overview
“In this lesson, we will continue to color our illustration with the second layer and teach you how to apply shadows to create volume and separate each element.”
In this video lesson Cristina Cilloniz addresses the topic: Shadows and volume, 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
“Shadows and Volume In this lesson we will apply layers to generate volume and shadows. We already have the first layer on all of our illustration. So now it's just applying more color and more volume. Something that I like to do a lot is combine colors. For example, in this flower, in this tulip the first layers I used with this bluish purple. And I would like to enhance some areas using different shades, for example, this purple one, but that pulls more towards pink. Here the idea is to try to separate each element, to get each one to work on its own. For the tulip, the idea is to separate...”
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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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