Fairy-Tale Illustration with Watercolors
The Final Details
A course by Dolle Étoile , Illustrator
About the video: The Final Details
Overview
“Lastly, I'll show you how to add the final details like gouache or metallic watercolor or foil to the finished piece. You will also see how to carefully disassemble the piece to prepare it for digitization.”
In this video lesson Dolle Étoile addresses the topic: The Final Details, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Watercolors. Learn fundamental watercolor techniques to bring fantastical worlds to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“the final details In this lesson we will finish the illustration giving the final details. We will apply details with gouache for those light details that could not be done by respecting the white of the paper. We will also use the mica with watercolor to give the details that shine with the light. We will begin. I still feel like a few details are missing in terms of the character and in some lines. I'll do that first before I go into the gouache details and the gilding. For example here in the hand it is necessary to separate the fingers a little. When the skin is transparent and the fing...”
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Course summary for: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Watercolors
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Dolle Étoile
A course by Dolle Étoile
Karla Rodríguez, better known as Miss Étoile or Dolle Étoile, is an illustrator who is inspired in her creations by the aesthetics of fairy tales and porcelain dolls. She studied digital graphic design at the International University of the Californias in Tijuana, although she later specialized in drawing and illustration. She currently works as a freelancer and has her own brand of products and accessories bearing her illustrations.
Her work is in countless publications, in several children's stories by Write Brain Books, USA, and 21 Draw, Sweden, in the fantasy art books The Enchanted Forest and The Elven Path by Black Fox Press, UK, and many others. She has exhibited collectively and on her own at Gallery Nucleus, Haven Gallery, Casa de la Cultura in Mexicali, Galería José María Velasco, Soumaya, and Casa de la Cultura de Playas.
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