Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color
Printing
A course by James Chapman , Illustrator and Author
About the video: Printing
Overview
“We’ll look more closely at the requirements for printing our sketchbook pieces for postcards, t-shirts and other physical media. By using some simple photo editing techniques to prepare our files, we can make sure the colours are maintained to ensure a bright, exciting final product.”
In this video lesson James Chapman addresses the topic: Printing, 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
“Now that we've taken some nice photos of our illustrations in our sketchbook in the previous lesson, we can move on to printing them. For printmaking, we might need to consider some other areas of photo editing, just to preserve the colour as it goes from screen to print. This is where some photo editing software can be really useful to tune the levels. I use Adobe Photoshop, but there are other programs available that might suit you better. Now let's have a go editing ourselves. Okay, so to edit our photos, we're going to go into Adobe Photoshop, we're going to open a new file. I'm going t...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration

James Chapman
A course by James Chapman
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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