Block Printing for Illustration
About Me
A course by SowiesoWies , Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“I will share my journey on becoming an illustrator with you, and my favourite projects so far!”
In this video lesson SowiesoWies addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Block Printing for Illustration. Carve patterns, shapes, and designs into blocks to create unique stamps for printing.
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me Hi, I am Wies Van Velde and I'm an illustrator from Utrecht, Netherlands. Welcome to my Domestika course. I use the block printing technique for my illustrations. I love this technique since I was a little girl when we learnt it in school. I fell in love with block printing because of the surprise at the end, after hours of planning your work. After several years of being a freelance illustrator, I decided I loved making work for myself much more, so I started making little illustrations I loved myself and made people smile. Fortunately, a lot of people started commenting online ho...”
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Course summary for: Block Printing for Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Children's Illustration, Engraving, Fine Arts, Printing, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
SowiesoWies
A course by SowiesoWies
Wies van der Velde, or SowiesoWies as she’s also known online, is an illustrator, artist, and potter from Utrecht, The Netherlands. She specializes in block printing and has been experimenting with the technique since she was ten years old after discovering her fascination with the unique textures it creates. Wies went on to study at an art academy, where she honed her artistic skills.
After graduating, she spent time finding her style and eventually began selling her work online. Since then, Wies has turned her artistic passion into a career and now works full-time from her own studio. She aims to bring joy to the world through her artwork, which she shares with over 150K followers on Instagram.
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