Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners
The End Pages 1
A course by Laura McKendry , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: The End Pages 1
Overview
“Finally I’ll show you ways to complete your sketchbook, bringing in a narrative, new ideas and building on what you’ve already achieved in the course so far. I’ll show you my completed sketchbook and share some of the stories behind my illustrations - including the mistakes, the successes and my process.”
In this video lesson Laura McKendry addresses the topic: The End Pages 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners. Paint exciting watercolor illustrations by exploring playful and unconventional techniques in your sketchbook.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to explore all sorts of playful ways that you can start to pull together the images that you already have in your sketchbook by creating some new ones that connect everything so it feels like a really coherent story perhaps. I'm going to share some ideas that you might like to explore, but really this should be Hopefully. the start of you. making your own connections, finding your own ways to play with what you already have in your sketchbook. And creating some more. the start of my book is blank and I'm going to come back to that in a minute, but If I go through...”
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Course summary for: Creative Watercolor Sketching for Beginners
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Laura McKendry
A course by Laura McKendry
Laura McKendry is an illustrator and artist based in London, UK, who is renowned for incorporating unusual tools and materials into her watercolor and ink-based pieces. Her work can be found on greeting cards, wrapping paper, homeware, and fine art prints for clients like Artko, Impress, Jaccart, Laura Ashley, Papyrus, WHSmith, and Waterstones.
Her book cover illustration for André Alexis’ novel Fifteen Dogs was nominated for the V&A Illustration Awards in 2016. She also teaches short courses on drawing and illustration at Central Saint Martins and the University of Arts London, and runs online workshops that focus on finding ways to unlock creativity while perfecting creative techniques.
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