Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art
Sketching 1
A course by Melanie Chadwick , Illustrator
Joined September 2020
About the video: Sketching 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we'll take a closer look at all the ingredients in our recipe and draw them in our sketchbook. We’ll be loosening up through a variety of exercises that will guide us to think about shape, line, colour, and composition. ”
In this video lesson Melanie Chadwick addresses the topic: Sketching 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art. Learn how to illustrate food by mixing digital and analog techniques to make your creations richer and tastier.
Partial transcription of the video
“So in this lesson, we are going to be taking a closer look at our ingredients and drawing them from life. So we're going to look at all of our ingredients. We're going to look at them as a whole, but we're also going to Look at them chopped in two. it's important for us to really know our ingredients So when they're chopped, we can see them from a different angle. And they'll look very different obviously as a whole as well. So I'm going to start off by drawing the red ingredients. and we're going to start by doing some contour drawing. So that's just drawing the outside edge. of each ingre...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art
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Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Infographics, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration

Melanie Chadwick
A course by Melanie Chadwick
Melanie Chadwick is a freelance illustrator and designer currently based in Cornwall, UK. She specializes in map and food illustration and enjoys mixing analog and digital techniques in her work.
She has worked with numerous clients across a range of projects including book illustration, food packaging, restaurant menus, magazine editorials, branding projects, maps, greeting cards, postcards, and more. Her clients include Cornish Seasalt, Foodimentary, Ferment Magazine, American Airlines, and Virgin Atlantic, among others.
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