Sketchbook Landscapes: A Colorful Approach
My little recipes
A course by Agnès Decourchelle , Illustrator
About the video: My little recipes
Overview
“To help you, I am going to show you some tips to take advantage of all the possibilities offered by colored pencils and markers. You will certainly be able to find new tricks yourself!”
In this video lesson Agnès Decourchelle addresses the topic: My little recipes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook Landscapes: A Colorful Approach. Observe, interpret, and illustrate a landscape by exploring a drawing approach based on spontaneity, color, light, and your sketchbook.
Partial transcription of the video
“My Recipes In this lesson, I'll show you different recipes and tips for using colored pencils and markers, on their own and together. I'll start with a colored pencil to show how we can get very vibrant tints with pencils. We think of colored pencils as pastel and dull. But we can get tints with very rich pigments. I'll start with a gradient. It means going from the lightest to darkest shade. The lightest will be the white of the paper, which I'll preserve. The more I press on my pencil, the more the color will take on pigments and become darker. By using my pencil on the same side, my tip ...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbook Landscapes: A Colorful Approach
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching
Agnès Decourchelle
A course by Agnès Decourchelle
Agnès Decourchelle has been immersed in the world of art since early childhood. Born to parents who were passionate about art, she has lived on several continents, notably in Africa. She learned to observe and capture the emotions of landscapes, which she tries to depict daily through drawing.
Always faithfully accompanied by her sketchbook, she works on many projects and particularly enjoys drawing portraits and landscapes.
She has collaborated with Les Inrocks, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, as well as publishers (Gallimard Jeunesse, Penguin Books, and Hachette), the audiovisual sector, and brands such as Santa & Cole and Carolina Herrera.
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