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
“Printing Now that we've taken nice photos of our illustrations in our sketchbook, we can print them. For print making let's consider other areas of photo editing, to preserve the colour as it goes from screen to print. Some photo editing software, can be useful to tune the levels. I use Adobe Photoshop, but other programmes might suit you better. Let's edit ourselves. Okay, so to edit our photos, we're going to go into Adobe Photoshop, open a new file, and let's set the dimension of this file to be the size of the print that we want. For this, I want an A5 print, which is 210 millimetres by...”
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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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