Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
Inking 3
A course by Mattias Adolfsson , Illustrator
About the video: Inking 3
Overview
“This is the last part of the lesson on inking.”
In this video lesson Mattias Adolfsson addresses the topic: Inking 3, 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
“Inking When I do those really complicated drawings that can take anywhere from 10 hours to the longest I've done work on a piece is 100 hours, you get into a sense that this will never be finished, I will be doing this until the day I die. Then suddenly you'll just look up and you say, "Oh, I'm finished." It's always difficult to find the point when it's enough to stand back and say, "Ok, it's ready." It tends to be a very specific point, because I don't have any paper, that says when I'm finished on this piece. I can't put in 100 hours. I need to add some wires. I need something... here. Y...”
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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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