Painting a Wildlife Scene with Gouache
Taming the lines and their movements
A course by Roxane Campoy , Illustrator and Animated Film Director
About the video: Taming the lines and their movements
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn to tame the pressure of the brush and develop your agility and your wrist to draw beautiful lines.”
In this video lesson Roxane Campoy addresses the topic: Taming the lines and their movements, which is part of the Domestika online course: Painting a Wildlife Scene with Gouache. Tame your linework, spaces, and colors to illustrate a bucolic scene.
Partial transcription of the video
“Taming the lines and their movements Now that we are well installed, we will start with an exercise to warm up your wrists a bit, to relax on the technique and tame the brush, because it is a medium that some have not yet tried. So, very simple, it will be a rooster in the line, with one color, to keep the basics and principles of the gouache line. As I am right handed, I will place the paint and my equipment on the right. If you are left-handed, go to the left, this will prevent you from going back and forth over your painting. You put a point of gouache. This color is an ultramarine blue,...”
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Course summary for: Painting a Wildlife Scene with Gouache
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Traditional illustration

Roxane Campoy
A course by Roxane Campoy
Roxane Campoy's heart belongs to illustration and animation in equal measure. Based in Lille, the prolific illustrator and director has already worked on a UNESCO campaign and collaborated with France Télévision and Maison Bonami.
Her work is inspired by Japanese imagery and seeks harmony between shapes, compositions, and colors. Painting with gouache is a meditative experience that allows Roxane to convey a sense of being truly alive and present.
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