Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
Basics: Washing and Glazing 2
A course by Aljoscha Blau , Artist, illustrator and author
About the video: Basics: Washing and Glazing 2
Overview
“Now I will show you how the glazing technique works, which consists of creating transparent layers.”
In this video lesson Aljoscha Blau addresses the topic: Basics: Washing and Glazing 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
“Basics: washing and glazing It is very important with this technique that you look, that the lower layers that we have already painted are already dry. If we paint in the half-wet or half-dry, the color will very likely fade, even if they don't mix that much with the lower layer, but it will tend to be paler. Therefore please pay attention that the lower layers are already dry. For example, it is important to pay attention to the eye, that the light comes from the right place. When I put on the frog, I already had in mind that the light comes from the top left. This means that the shadow ar...”
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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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