Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration
Illustrating Your Final Piece and Incorporating Experimental Elements
A course by Kayla Stark , Illustrator
About the video: Illustrating Your Final Piece and Incorporating Experimental Elements
Overview
“Everything you’ve done previously has led you to this point: illustrating the final piece(s). Choose materials that excited you, liked, and scared you (your choice!), and create that ultimate piece! Refer to your notes from the experimentation phase. Keep composition and balance in mind as well. Do three versions of the same piece, trying a different method each time. How do the mood and style differ in the end? How do you feel about each one? ”
In this video lesson Kayla Stark addresses the topic: Illustrating Your Final Piece and Incorporating Experimental Elements, 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
“Illustrating Your Final Piece And Incorporating Experimental Elements We're done sketching for our final project. In this lesson, we'll use the experimental techniques we learned to finish the illustration. I took the more refined sketch that I finished, put it on a light box with my watercolor paper on top, and lightly transferred that with a blue pencil, so I can see the sketch underneath and it can guide my painting. I'm using the edges of this paper as my palette as it won't matter. I'd cut those off or crop in after I scan. I'm trying to work quickly because I want to blend some darker...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration
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Category
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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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