Scientific Illustration of Animals in Watercolor

Overview

“I will continue to show you some exercises that are basic before starting to work with watercolor on your project. I recommend that you do them, so you will get used to the handling of the tools, especially the use of the brush.”

In this video lesson Balamoc addresses the topic: Watercolor Basics 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Scientific Illustration of Animals in Watercolor . Explore all the possibilities of this technique by creating detailed and lively illustrations of animal life .

Partial transcription of the video

“Watercolor Basics This exercise we have here is similar to the one we did at the beginning. We applied even layers of color, but changing the number of layers. This method of applying watercolor is known as "the glaze method" and in this shadow we have here, we're only applying a single layer. In the next one, we're doing two layers throughout, and so on until you reach the last one, which is the most intense. Still, I used two brushes. One for the paint, one for the water. We will be using this type of watercolor application to tackle a volume exercise for which I'm doing an overall first ...”

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Course summary for: Scientific Illustration of Animals in Watercolor

• Level: Beginner
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• 5993 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (3h 37m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Naturalistic Illustration, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting