Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
Choosing the Theme
A course by Mattias Adolfsson , Illustrator
About the video: Choosing the Theme
Overview
“In this lesson, you will choose what will happen in your illustration, how to use a sketchbook, how to sketch, and a list to collect all details and ideas. ”
In this video lesson Mattias Adolfsson addresses the topic: Choosing the Theme, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail. Create artwork filled with intricate ideas while maintaining balance and harmony.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to start working on a theme. of the final project. The theme that I'm going to work from is trying to condense a complete day of professional illustrator in one image and I want to kind of make everything I do during the day in one image. For this, it's really good to have a notebook a sketchbook, and start writing down small ideas. You can always add more ideas as you go along, when you're in the sketching process, when you're inking the piece, it's always time for an extra little idea, try to think about what can happen in the draw. The more you thought you put...”
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Course summary for: Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
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Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Mattias Adolfsson
A course by Mattias Adolfsson
Mattias Adolfsson has been working as a freelance illustrator for over eleven years. While working as a graphic designer in the computer games industry, he started sharing his work on social media, where he began his successful career in illustration.
His long list of clients includes Nickelodeon, Disney, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers, and other important animation studios. He has also illustrated for magazines including The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times.
Mattias has created a variety of illustration work in areas like product design, for baby clothes brand Atelier Choux Paris, record sleeves, as well as an art commission for the largest hospital in Sweden.
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