Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
Covering Parts of the Image with Masking Fluid 2
A course by Aljoscha Blau , Artist, illustrator and author
About the video: Covering Parts of the Image with Masking Fluid 2
Overview
“Now you can see what the picture really looks like without the masking rubber! With a fine brush I work it further and add some details.”
In this video lesson Aljoscha Blau addresses the topic: Covering Parts of the Image with Masking Fluid 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache. Discover the versatility of gouache by combining basic and experimental techniques to develop your own illustration style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Covering Parts of the Image with Masking Fluid I try to bring in as inaccurate, random patterns as possible, then anyway when drying won't look so wild and anarchic anymore but it's nice that there is something like that. Then it applies again play around with the color a bit and to wait until this application of paint is dry. If it happens that eg a drop or stain gets next to the masking liquid, isn't it bad because you can scrape such stains out of the paper later. I'll show you how. Or leave it like that. The second layer is now dry. So we go to an even lighter color and paint over it. B...”
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Course summary for: Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Aljoscha Blau
A course by Aljoscha Blau
Aljoschau Blau is an illustrator, author and lecturer in drawing and illustration. After the Wall came down, he left his hometown of Saint Petersburg to study art and illustration in Hamburg and now lives in Berlin. Children's and picture books are his specialty. He has either illustrated or written more than 60 works and strives to do justice to each book with an individual illustration style. For the most part, he remains true to his favorite medium, gouache painting.
What appeals to him about the genre of the picture book is the illustrator's special responsibility to translate content that previously only existed in abstract language into the visual. He sees his projects as intellectual adventures with room for surprises, the grotesque and humour. He often lets the details do the talking and invites the viewer to look around in peace. His books in cooperation with German and international publishers, including Peter Hammer, Aufbau, NordSüd and Bajazzo, have received numerous international awards such as the German Youth Literature Prize and the renowned BolognaRagazzi Award. In "Multitalent Gouache" he recorded his experiences and techniques for illustration with gouache in book form.
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