Expressive Mixed-Media Illustration: Find Your Creative Flow
From Your Sketch to the Refined Artwork 1
A course by Yoyo Nasty , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: From Your Sketch to the Refined Artwork 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll show you how I transfer the sketch into a final painting full of life and personality. ”
In this video lesson Yoyo Nasty addresses the topic: From Your Sketch to the Refined Artwork 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Mixed-Media Illustration: Find Your Creative Flow. Explore playful painting and collage techniques to create colorful works of art from your imagination.
Partial transcription of the video
“From Your Sketch to the Refined Artwork In this lesson, I'm going to show you how I transfer the collage sketch into the refined artwork. We're ready to start painting our final project. What I do is paint layers, so I'm going to start with painting the background. I'm using both gouache and flash for this painting. I think they mix well together, and I'm adding a little bit of water to make it more easy to flow on the paper. When I am painting the background, I look at my sketch and I measure, so perhaps, in my sketch, I can see that approximately a third of the painting is the ground and ...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Mixed-Media Illustration: Find Your Creative Flow
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Creativity, Gouache Painting, Painting, Sketching, Traditional illustration

Yoyo Nasty
A course by Yoyo Nasty
Yoyo Nasty is a Swedish-born artist and illustrator. She wanted to be an artist before she even knew it was a career option, and she went on to study for a master’s degree in fine art at Konstfack University of Arts. From there, Yoyo started working full-time as an illustrator, selling her original artwork and creating commissions for clients.
She’s collaborated with international brands like Klarna and worked on the print design for H&M’s Zara Larsson collection. She has led both solo and group exhibitions in Stockholm and won numerous awards from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Yoyo has been featured in publications including Paper Magazine, and she shares her designs with over 14K followers on Instagram.
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