Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art
Scanning Textures and Ink Drawings
A course by Melanie Chadwick , Illustrator
Joined September 2020
About the video: Scanning Textures and Ink Drawings
Overview
“In this lesson, we will be scanning all our textures and ink drawings into Photoshop. I'll show you how I play with the levels to make sure they are suitable for Illustrator and are saved in the right format. ”
In this video lesson Melanie Chadwick addresses the topic: Scanning Textures and Ink Drawings, 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
“Scanning our textures and ink drawings Okay, so I've just scanned the textures into Photoshop and now I'm gonna show you how to adjust the levels, so that all the files are ready for Illustrator. I'm gonna show you how. Here we are in Photoshop, you should have just scanned in all of your drawings. And just a little note on scanning, make sure that you've scanned them in at a high enough res, I would recommend between 300 and 600. That should be able to give you a nice, crisp finish. Okay, let's have a look at what we need to do to prepare these files ready for Illustrator. I am going to fi...”
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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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