Creating Botanical Patterns from a Drawing

How to create a sketch

A course by Giulia Tosi , Designer and Artisan

Designer and Artisan. Verona, Italy.
Joined March 2021
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1,318 students
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About the video: How to create a sketch

Overview

“Once we have chosen the subject we want to create, we will put it back on paper, giving it shape. We will also choose the colors we will use. In fact, we will create our palette with colored pencils.”

In this video lesson Giulia Tosi addresses the topic: How to create a sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Botanical Patterns from a Drawing. Learn how to make a botanical pattern that captures your perspective of nature by drawing, painting, and duplicating illustrations in Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“How to create a sketch In this lesson I will explain how to create a sketch starting from the idea developed during the research phase, of creating the moodboard. I'll show you my way to proceed. In this case, I've already thought about the subject and I will go to intuition, I will make a drawing starting from an idea in my head. Nobody forbids you to keep the image you have chosen alongside or several images to be inspired. During my research I chose mandarins, so this will be the subject that I will make. I chose them because they are within the same subject there are three elements: fru...”

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Course summary for: Creating Botanical Patterns from a Drawing

  • Level: Beginner
  • 95% positive reviews (62)
  • 1318 students
  • 4 units
  • 15 lessons (2h 20m)
  • 5 downloads
  • Category

    Design, Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Botanical Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration

Giulia Tosi

Giulia Tosi
A course by Giulia Tosi

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Designer and Artisan

Giulia Tosi is a designer and artisan from Verona, Italy. She is founder of the brand Insunsit, which means "nowhere" in the Mantuan dialect. Her style is characterized by the freedom to not choose any one fixed path. Giulia works with a range of materials and her creations are constantly evolving.

After studying History of Art at university, she spent some years working as a bookseller and developing her personal project on the side. She went on to travel around Italy, selling her creations at various markets before opening her online shop and setting herself up in a shared studio in Verona. It is here that she currently works, exhibits her pieces, and receives visitors.


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Creating Botanical Patterns from a Drawing. Design & Illustration course by Giulia Tosi

Creating Botanical Patterns from a Drawing

A course by Giulia Tosi
Designer and Artisan. Verona, Italy.
Joined March 2021
  • 95% positive reviews (62)
  • 1,318 students