Realistic Botanical Watercolor Drawing
Create a botanical archive
A course by Nadia Leo , Graphic Artist, Calligrapher, and Illustrator
About the video: Create a botanical archive
Overview
“All the sketches and the material you used for your botanical table represent a real treasure to keep in order to be able to do the same illustration again in the future. Creating a botanical archive is very useful for storing studies, notes, color palettes, photographs, everything related to our illustration work. You can keep the material in a notebook or, alternatively, in a box.”
In this video lesson Nadia Leo addresses the topic: Create a botanical archive, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Botanical Watercolor Drawing. Learn a drawing method based on curiosity and careful observation to create botanical watercolor illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“Create a botanical archive In this lesson I will show you how to store all the material produced and transform it into a botanical archive. In my experience I have seen that to preserve the material produced along the process from drawing to coloring it may be useful to me in the future. For each illustration I create a small folder, where, writing the name, I have the opportunity to collect all the material. I therefore collect the first draft. The study of shadows. The route I need to then copy it over on the sheet of watercolor paper. The leaves, possibly, if there is a chance. The vario...”
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Course summary for: Realistic Botanical Watercolor Drawing
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Category
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Areas
Botanical Illustration, Design, Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Nadia Leo
A course by Nadia Leo
Nadia Leo is a graphic artist, calligrapher, and illustrator. Curious and creative from an early age, she studied graphic design in high school and continued her education at an arts' lyceum to master both disciplines that would later define her career.
She spent many years creating graphic content for the advertising industry at a time when manual techniques like cut-outs, mock-ups, drawings, and collages were still the norm. As these traditional methods gave way to digital tools, Nadia wanted to explore the art of letters beyond the typography offered in classes and decided to dive into the world of calligraphy focusing on a more personal and artisan approach.
Thanks to this art form, she started to collaborate with fashion brands like Hermès and to create stationery for weddings and events. During lockdown in 2020, she rekindled her passion for drawing and discovered painting with watercolors, which opened a world of possibilities for illustrating plants and flowers. She currently shares her creations on Instagram and has designed her own collection of nature-inspired stationery items.
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