Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color

Photographing Your Work

A course by James Chapman , Illustrator and Author

Illustrator and Author. Manchester, United Kingdom.
Joined August 2020
99% positive reviews (198)
4,368 students
Audio: English, Italian
English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch

About the video: Photographing Your Work

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll demonstrate how to take high quality photos of your work with a mobile phone camera, and discuss some of the best ways to frame your work for social media to maximise your engagement and even create a following.”

In this video lesson James Chapman addresses the topic: Photographing Your Work, 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

“In this lesson, we're going to be focusing more on post-production, specifically photographing your work. We'll take your work and we'll try and make it look as beautiful as possible. So we've got our first few pieces already finished in our sketchbook project, and we might want to share them around. Depending on what your intentions are for this project, you might want to put them on social media, make prints of them, put them on t-shirts and sell them as merchandise or anything. A good thing to do to start off with is take a photograph of your work. You don't need to have any fancy equipm...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color

  • Level: Beginner
  • 99% positive reviews (198)
  • 4368 students
  • 4 units
  • 13 lessons (2h 29m)
  • 5 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Areas

    Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration

James Chapman

James Chapman
A course by James Chapman

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Illustrator and Author

James Chapman is an illustrator and children's author based in the UK. Realizing that he needed a break from so much time staring at a screen, he began experimenting with Posca paint markers and creating brightly colored works of art in a sketchbook.

James’ professional work is mostly animation and digital art, but his +50k Instagram followers know him for his colorful sketchbooks filled with film and pop culture references. He has collaborated with BuzzFeed, Babbel, the BBC, and CBS Television, and has published several books that explore words and sounds from around the world.


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Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color. Illustration course by James Chapman

Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color

A course by James Chapman
Illustrator and Author. Manchester, United Kingdom.
Joined August 2020
  • 99% positive reviews (198)
  • 4,368 students