Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art

Final Composition

A course by Melanie Chadwick , Illustrator

Illustrator. Mullion, United Kingdom.
Joined September 2020
97% positive reviews (249)
5,957 students
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About the video: Final Composition

Overview

“In this lesson, we’ll create the final composition of our recipe, add a textured background and the lettering. We’ll also add any final texture shadows using the pencil tool.”

In this video lesson Melanie Chadwick addresses the topic: Final Composition, 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

“Final Composition In this next lesson we're gonna be doing our final composition. We're gonna be using our textures, the lettering, just to bring it all together. Let's get going. We are almost ready now to start actually creating our final composition with all the elements that we have texturised here. As you can see, I have got all of my different ingredients all ready to be placed onto the artboard. I'm now going to fetch my very rough sketch thumbnail, which will help me work out the placement. So, I'm gonna go to File and Place. I'm just gonna put it on my artboard. As you can see, thi...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art

  • Level: Beginner
  • 97% positive reviews (249)
  • 5957 students
  • 5 units
  • 19 lessons (3h 4m)
  • 6 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Areas

    Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Infographics, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration

Melanie Chadwick

Melanie Chadwick
A course by Melanie Chadwick

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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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Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art. Illustration course by Melanie Chadwick

Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art

A course by Melanie Chadwick
Illustrator. Mullion, United Kingdom.
Joined September 2020
  • 97% positive reviews (249)
  • 5,957 students