Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration
Graphite and Digital Color
A course by Kayla Stark , Illustrator
About the video: Graphite and Digital Color
Overview
“One way of working and combining methods is doing a complete graphite drawing and adding color digitally. In this lesson, I’ll show you how to create a finished graphite piece to add digital color. Then I’ll show how I take that file into Procreate on the iPad Pro and add color and manage layers. This gives you a lot of room to play with color combinations and textures in a digital, non-destructive way. ”
In this video lesson Kayla Stark addresses the topic: Graphite and Digital Color , which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration. Find your artistic style by exploring various combinations of materials, mediums, and techniques to create special illustrations for children.
Partial transcription of the video
“Graphite and Digital Color We experimented with layering materials and using cut paper and in this lesson, I'll talk about graphite and digital color. A way I like to work because of how easy it is to make changes is doing a graphite version of the sketch, a finished, black and white graphite version, then scanning that and adding color digitally. I have the same sketch from before of Bou and Pip, the puffin, on his head, so I'll make a finished drawing with texture using graphite. I have an HB Blackwing pencil. I have this darker 2B pencil for darker tones. This pencil is similar to the Bl...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Kayla Stark
A course by Kayla Stark
Kayla Stark is an illustrator from Tennessee, USA, who has been in love with drawing for as long as she can remember. She believes in using your own individual perspective on the world and using it to create illustrations with a unique perspective. She studied Graphic Design at university and worked in a number of graphic design roles after graduating before pursuing her first love: illustration.
Since becoming a full-time freelance illustrator, working both digitally and traditionally across projects. Kayla has illustrated several books, including an interactive board book she wrote, Friends at the Firehouse, and her work has appeared in magazines and on posters. As well as this, Kayla sells her art prints online. Inspired by fellow illustrators, graphic designers and other creatives in her area, Kayla co-founded a working studio The Warren in Nashville, home to workshops, gallery shows, and other community events.
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