Artistic Illustration: From Drawing to Digital
Using Charcoal in a Painterly Manner
A course by Paul Scheruebel , Painter, Illustrator, and Graphic Designer
About the video: Using Charcoal in a Painterly Manner
Overview
“In this lesson, I will demonstrate how I like to use charcoal and why I think that tracing paper is the ideal surface for it.”
In this video lesson Paul Scheruebel addresses the topic: Using Charcoal in a Painterly Manner, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Illustration: From Drawing to Digital. Experiment with illustration by creating artwork with charcoal and gouache paint then digitizing it on Photoshop to create striking images.
Partial transcription of the video
“Using Charcoal in a Painterly Manner In this lesson, I'll show you how I like to use charcoal on tracing paper. In order to do this, I found myself a photographic reference on the internet. And I've also uploaded it to the Additional Resources, so you can use the same piece of reference if you like. So, I'm going to start with the drawing. I'll take a bit of the willow charcoal. It's quite important that you take this kind of charcoal. It also comes in charcoal pencils but they don't work quite so well. They are harder to erase and they will only allow for a limited range of marks. An this ...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Illustration: From Drawing to Digital
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Traditional illustration
Paul Scheruebel
A course by Paul Scheruebel
After studying graphic design in university in Austria (and a brief stint as a jazz musician), Paul Scherübel began working as an editorial graphic designer for the Austrian magazine Graz. Wanting to improve his artistic abilities, he moved to London to study illustration in the University of Westminster, where he developed his eclectic and experimental style.
He has since done illustrations for magazines, theater productions, and companies like The Folio Society, Austria Microsystems, and the Swiss Engineering Institute. He has also been featured in Images: Best of British Illustration, Spectrum 26: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, and 3×3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration.
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