Botanical Illustration with Watercolors

Illustrating botanicals

“Congratulations! You have reached the end of the course. You already know the basics of watercolor illustration and how to use the materials, I hope you will practice a lot and master this technique. As a final project, we will use a plant or flower as a model to create an illustrated botanical composition. Once finished and digitized, we will work with it in Photoshop and use it as a graphic resource to design a set of stationery (notepad, day planner and notebook). Remember to share all your findings and experiments in the forum. I will be there watching your progress and answering any questions. See you soon!”

Partial transcription of the video

“We've reached the final part of this course, now we'll do a summary of what we learned. I started by introducing the materials I generally use and which we used during the course. Next we did some exercises introducing technique, practising volume and we did exercises to represent textures. We also looked at some references to differentiate between scientific illustration and botanical art. We chose two illustration styles, with watercolours and using graphite pencil. We compared these two illustrations so that you could choose which you prefer and use it in your final project. We did a dis...”

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Course summary for: Botanical Illustration with Watercolors

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (4286)
• 153684 students
• 5 units
• 17 lessons (2h 32m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting