Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
Creating the Final Illustration 1
A course by Aljoscha Blau , Artist, illustrator and author
About the video: Creating the Final Illustration 1
Overview
“Now use the techniques you learned in Unit 3 to create the illustration for your project.”
In this video lesson Aljoscha Blau addresses the topic: Creating the Final Illustration 1, 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
“Creating the Final Illustration In the previous lesson we invented and sketched the animal. I also want to show that it might be different namely that one from the same animals, a porcupine, a shrew and a flying fox for example could do something like that or a mouse with the body of a panther or the animal that we then drew in large. The next step is the actual task, the animal as we have sketched it, to paint in the right technique. For the fur, we saw that it would be good use masking fluid. I'll be around the animal cover the negative space with the masking liquid, so that the body with...”
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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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