Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail

Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail

“There is something timeless about complex complicated art in that all kinds of people, no matter the age or background can appreciate it. Children constantly find new details, whereas adults are reminded of how it felt like to be a child. From the beginning of human development, it has been used to describe the life, ideas, and habits of humans all through history. By studying art and history and learning how to construct and fill pieces with lots of details and stories you will be able to tell stories and describe your thoughts with your art, and by watching examples from history you can learn that the techniques do not have to be perfect. You can use perspectives in your illustrations but you do not have to be a master at it. Consider the style of the Egyptians, the Persians, or the Chinese, or even the Maya Indians. The point here is that you might want to develop your own way of doing things, finding your own style in the process. The task may be overwhelming at first, but try to finish each project anyway even though it might take a long time, and if you are not 100% happy you can always try again, that is how humans learn. For the final project what you will have to do is to finish one detail-drawing using an actual location as your starting point. Fill it up with as much interesting detail and life as possible. I am looking forward to seeing the process and the results in either the forum or in social media outlets (if that's the case, remember to add hashtags).

It is sometimes hard to get a grip on large complicated drawings. Seeing them as smaller separate pieces make it simpler to finish them one by one. In turn, it helps you not to get suck in small errors, as they will get lost in the bigger picture. Try to find a space or a place that means a lot to you and try to incorporate as much as possible with your own thoughts and ideas, starting out close to home will make it easier to add a personal and unique tone to your piece. It is time to say goodbye. I hope to see your pieces in the forum. The discussions in the forum will help you to get the most out of the course, as you can engage in interesting conversations that will do nothing but expand your own knowledge. Bye! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“This is it. We have reached the end of this Domestika course. I hope I've taught you enough how to make a really complex detailed drawing with ink and watercolors. Before we part ways, I would like to go through all the steps we have taken together to develop your final project. But first, I showed you my materials I use to create my complex drawings. After we learned how to choose the space for your final project, I used a simple one point perspective and a real space for reference. This makes it easier when you work with details. Then we chose the same. We wrote down some short stories an...”

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Course summary for: Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail

• Level: Beginner
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• 18779 students
• 4 units
• 19 lessons (3h 54m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting