Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color

Overview

“In this lesson, we’ll get some rough sketches down to help visualise our ideas and set them out on the page. Using perspective especially here, I’ll show a dynamic scene unfolding on the page, with some simple techniques you can try for yourself in your own project.”

In this video lesson James Chapman addresses the topic: Sketching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color. Explore your imagination and create vibrant illustrations with acrylic paint markers.

Partial transcription of the video

“Sketching Now we'll begin sketching for our sketchbook project, laying out construction lines that we can then colour in to set out the layout, the composition and the general tone of our drawing. This way, we get our idea on paper, and it doesn't need to be perfect. At this stage, anything is possible, and we can you use advanced techniques to make things dynamic and engaging. We can add foreground and background elements to add depth and even bring in symmetry and radial symmetry to give an appealing aesthetic to our drawing. Now, I'm gonna show off one-point perspective, where we'll draw...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (198)
• 4336 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 29m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration