Negative Watercolor Painting for Children's Illustration
Painting negative: Details
A course by Alinailustra , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Painting negative: Details
Overview
“You will finish the process by adding textures and emphasizing the shadows with colored pencils and the highlights with white gouache. You will see how you can use other materials to achieve more contrast and give a final magical touch to your illustration. ”
In this video lesson Alinailustra addresses the topic: Painting negative: Details, which is part of the Domestika online course: Negative Watercolor Painting for Children's Illustration. Expand your watercolor techniques to add depth and a touch of magic to your illustrations .
Partial transcription of the video
“Negative Painting: Details I’ll show you the next layer, which is totally dry and which I've already done in another illustration. So, if you look closely, I darkened the ears more here with the purple shade I created, and I put a bit here too. In the lower part of the illustration and in the leaves, to separate them from each other, I created a gradient like the one I explained in the previous lesson but with an orange color, and this way I began to separate all the leaves in the same plane. I'll start painting some of these separations so you can see how it's done. For example, I’ll separ...”
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Course summary for: Negative Watercolor Painting for Children's Illustration
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Children's Illustration, Narrative, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Alinailustra
A course by Alinailustra
Carolina Alarcón holds a degree in graphic design and has more than a decade of professional experience as an illustrator and designer. The bulk of her work focuses on children's illustration, primarily for the publishing industry. She has collaborated with publishing companies such as Pearson México, Planeta, Norma, Piedra Santa, Santillana, and Revista Bacánika to name a few.
Carolina is the creative mind and hand behind Alinailustra, her personal online brand where she offers products decorated with her own illustrations and shares educational materials. She also recently launched ilustropik, an initiative centered around organizing activities and events to help promote work from illustrators in her city.
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