Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
First Sketch and Technique Selection
A course by Aljoscha Blau , Artist, illustrator and author
About the video: First Sketch and Technique Selection
Overview
“Now I'll show you how I sort my chosen references and make pencil sketches. ”
In this video lesson Aljoscha Blau addresses the topic: First Sketch and Technique Selection, 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
“First sketch and technique selection In this lesson I laid myself on books and become from a few selected little animals put together a movie animal. I do that here on this sheet of paper and use a gray colored pencil and then add black to show details. I'll start with grey. I chose this porcupine. for the whole body for the beautiful spikes and fur they are very impressive. I make a body that comes across as massive and spiky. I don't need to go into that much detail now. And next to the porcupine I also found a photo here with the little panther animal, who is also very cute and has a bea...”
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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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