Exploratory Sketchbook: Find Your Drawing Style
Introduction
A course by Sarah van Dongen , Illustrator
Joined March 2020
Discover fun methods to develop your ideas and draw from observation using gouache, watercolor, and colored pencils
About the video: Introduction
Overview
“I will talk about my childhood, my creative journey and how I got to the point where I am now. I will also talk about my clients, the work I make for them and the importance of Instagram.”
In this video lesson Sarah van Dongen addresses the topic: Introduction, which is part of the Domestika online course: Exploratory Sketchbook: Find Your Drawing Style. Discover fun methods to develop your ideas and draw from observation using gouache, watercolor, and colored pencils.
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction Hello, my name is Sarah Van Dongen and I'm an Illustrator. Welcome to my course. In this lesson I'm gonna tell you a bit about myself and where I come from. In case you're wondering, I'm from the Netherlands and I like to make funny, sensitive and colorful illustrations. And I love to upload all these images to Instagram. As a child I was always playing around. I loved to make different things like houses or furniture for my dolls. I also really enjoyed making little gadgets. I pretended to be a secret agent and Indiana Jones or Lara Croft from Tomb Raider. My days were filled ...”
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Course summary for: Exploratory Sketchbook: Find Your Drawing Style
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Gouache Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
A course by Sarah van Dongen
Sarah van Dongen is a Dutch illustrator based in Amsterdam who is passionate about telling stories. She began her studies in comparative literature but enrolled in the MA in Children’s Books Illustration in Cambridge, UK after realizing she wanted to pursue a more creative career.
Sarah’s illustration work can be found in children’s books, stationery, newspapers, and magazines across the globe. Her clients include Flow Magazine, Adobe, Tiny Owl Publishing, and Ragged Bears Publishing, among others. Sarah enjoys exploring themes like gardens, food, social interactions, mental health, and her childhood. She doesn’t shy away from subjects like insecurity, loneliness, and loss, she expresses them in her sketches to help make these feelings more comprehensible.
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