Artistic Naturalistic Drawing with Pencil
Sketch in Photoshop
A course by Iván Salamanca , Visual Artist and Botanical Illustrator
About the video: Sketch in Photoshop
Overview
“Before turning to paper, I am going to show you how to make a composition with the help of Photoshop, thanks to this tool you will be able to play with the images until you find a composition that you like for the final project. ”
In this video lesson Iván Salamanca addresses the topic: Sketch in Photoshop, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Naturalistic Drawing with Pencil. Learn to make drawings inspired by nature in a realistic and creative way using graphite pencils.
Partial transcription of the video
“Sketch in Photoshop Before we get down to paper, I'm going to show you how to make a composition using Photoshop. Thanks to this tool, we can play with the images until we find a composition that we like for our final project. Let's see. I already downloaded reference images, I downloaded some of a bird, of a flower and I saved them in Sketch images. Now these three images that I am going to use for my final project I'm going to pull them into Photoshop. Ready. I previously made a format about 20 by 25 cm, which is the size of the sheet that I will use for the final project. It has to go in...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Naturalistic Drawing with Pencil
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing

Iván Salamanca
A course by Iván Salamanca
Iván Salamanca is a visual artist and botanical illustrator specialized in graphite pencil drawings. His work has been featured at fairs and in galleries across Mexico, Colombia, the United States, Germany, and Japan.
He's passionate about plants, animals, and flowers and capturing their beauty through drawing. His work is the embodiment of order, where everything has a place and a process, and aims to recreate that which is found in nature.
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