Animal Illustration: Capturing Wildlife in a Sketchbook
Creating Your Own Poses From Your Imagination
A course by Jenny Rae , Artist
About the video: Creating Your Own Poses From Your Imagination
Overview
“You will learn how to draw your own animals from your imagination and memory. The techniques you’ve learned so far will really start to apply here! ”
In this video lesson Jenny Rae addresses the topic: Creating Your Own Poses From Your Imagination, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animal Illustration: Capturing Wildlife in a Sketchbook. Learn to turn complex anatomy into simple shapes and portray the essence of an animal through illustration and collage.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating Your Own Poses From Your Imagination Now, you'll learn to draw animals from your own imagination and memory. The techniques you've learned so far will really start to apply here. Once you've got in practise and understanding what you'll draw, you can draw poses from your imagination. I'm gonna draw a horse. It's one of my favourite things to draw. I'll start with a coloured pencil. That gives a light sketch and adds a bit of depth to the image. As before, I start off with a circle. It's quite light to begin with. That gives me the basis for where the heads gonna go. I like to throw...”
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Course summary for: Animal Illustration: Capturing Wildlife in a Sketchbook
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Category
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Areas
Collage, Naturalistic Illustration, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration

Jenny Rae
A course by Jenny Rae
Jenny Rae is a self-taught artist from the UK who specializes in animal drawings and illustrations. Her grandfathers who were both artists themselves encouraged her to draw from a young age and, inspired by family visits to Bristol Zoo as a child, animals quickly became her favorite subjects. She went on to do a work experience placement at the same zoo where she spent time honing her drawing skills before going on to study animal behavior at Aberystwyth University. Jenny used illustration as a form of therapy throughout her studies before turning her passion into a career.
Today she illustrates everything from pet portraits to tattoo designs for her clients as well as sharing her work with her five-figure following on Instagram.
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