Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration
Thumbnailing and Sketching Your Final Piece
A course by Kayla Stark , Illustrator
About the video: Thumbnailing and Sketching Your Final Piece
Overview
“Go back to the main idea from your mind map. It’s time to create compositional thumbnails. Try to fill a page with thumbnails. The more you, do the better your final product. Pick your strongest thumbnails and create more detailed rough sketches. Sketching with value is helpful here to balance your lights, darks, and mid-tones. Pick your favorite rough sketch! Dig deep; often, the first idea isn’t the best. ”
In this video lesson Kayla Stark addresses the topic: Thumbnailing and Sketching Your Final Piece, 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
“Thumbnailing and Sketching Your Final Piece We've finished exercises in composition. In this lesson, we'll begin thumbnailing and sketching for the final project. We'll begin pulling from everything we've done so far. Bear in mind what you looked at in the exercise previously when you were sketching from a film still. Now we'll create our thumbnails for the final project. Remember you did a mind map and came up with an idea for a scene. Draw little boxes, rectangles. They don't have to be perfect. I'll draw six to start. I'll quickly thumbnail ideas here. This is only for composition. This ...”
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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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