Imaginary Places: Draw, Paint, and Digitize on Photoshop
Making a Folder of Textures
A course by Francisco Fonseca, Illustrator and Artist
About the video: Making a Folder of Textures
Overview
“In this lesson, I will guide you in playing with papers and materials. It's time to throw caution to the wind and see where your imagination takes you! You can even experiment with leaves, ground, or dirt. You will see how to build a folder of different textures that will help you to pinpoint the mood and ambiance of future illustrations. ”
In this video lesson Francisco Fonseca addresses the topic: Making a Folder of Textures, which is part of the Domestika online course: Imaginary Places: Draw, Paint, and Digitize on Photoshop. Learn to draw an imaginary place by combing analog tools like watercolors, pencils, and a sketchbook with Photoshop to add vibrant texture .
Partial transcription of the video
“In this class, we'll create textures. This is probably the most fun part of our process because we don't need to think about what we're doing. We're just going to put things on the paper, materials randomly, and try to create a folder of textures that can help us not only give a mood to our sketches when combined in digital process, but also to give us ideas of, future illustrations. So I just want to start. just using whatever I feel like. In this case, I just I'm gonna grab this Eko Limb, this is basic watercolor. but a liquid. I will not think too much about this part, so I just kind of ...”
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Course summary for: Imaginary Places: Draw, Paint, and Digitize on Photoshop
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Architectural Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Narrative, Sketching

Francisco Fonseca
A course by Francisco Fonseca
Francisco Fonseca is an illustrator born and raised in Paço de Sousa, a small village in Portugal. Since he was a child, he has shown great interest in representation through drawing, being strongly influenced by the spaces that surrounded him. Still, to this day, nothing has changed. After completing his master's in drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 2018, he dedicated himself full time to illustration.
In addition to several solo and group exhibitions like À mão (2019) and Lugares, he founded Porta 98, and is co-founder of Garden Skate Co. Francisco also dedicates himself to the investigation of myths and legends, and he tries to give a voice to the inhabitants of his city. Through his illustrations, he aims to build a bridge between different generations to rescue a cultural heritage from oblivion, which he considers to be brimming with richness.
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