Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art
Sketching 3
A course by Melanie Chadwick , Illustrator
Joined September 2020
About the video: Sketching 3
Overview
“Let's top off this part of the process.”
In this video lesson Melanie Chadwick addresses the topic: Sketching 3, 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
“Sketching I like to mix my greens with just the yellow and the blue rather than just use an already made green. It means that you get a far greatest selection of greens. Sometimes it's also nice to play with scale. So, you have some objects or ingredients maybe bigger and some smaller and you could change the scale of them on your page. Maybe you'd like to zoom in or something. I'm using Ecoline brush pens just to add a bit of shadow. These are water-soluble, so you'll see what happens when I add the water brush to them. I'm gonna finish this off just like I did here. I'm just putting some ...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art
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Category
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Areas
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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