Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
Preliminary Sketching of Details
A course by Mattias Adolfsson , Illustrator
About the video: Preliminary Sketching of Details
Overview
“In this lesson, you will do some preliminary sketches using a sketchbook or a drawing pad. You can use a pencil or do the sketches directly in ink. You will use your references and mood board as a starting point for the sketches. ”
In this video lesson Mattias Adolfsson addresses the topic: Preliminary Sketching of Details, 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
“Preliminary sketching of details In this lesson we'll do some preliminary sketches of details and poses. We'll make a use of the thumbnail sketch and the mood board but also add extra things that come to you when you sit and sketch. As often, I think the sketchbook is very good for those kinds of sketches, it keeps them collected if you want to have them as a reference, and also the size of the sketchbook is very good for those small kind of drawings. And one other thing that is good doing those preliminary sketches is finding the right scale for the end result. We have the thumbnail and th...”
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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 -
Areas
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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