Illustrated Diary: Fill Your Sketchbook with Experiences
Color and vertical lines
A course by David Morales , Architect and Illustrator
About the video: Color and vertical lines
Overview
“Sometimes we can use other resources to finish composing our pages. In this lesson I will show you the resource of vertical lines and color as a composition background.”
In this video lesson David Morales addresses the topic: Color and vertical lines, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Diary: Fill Your Sketchbook with Experiences. Learn to use your sketchbook as an illustrated journal by exploring ink drawing with the cross-hatching technique.
Partial transcription of the video
“Color and Vertical Lines We're done with our black ink, and we already have the outlines and shading in our drawing. You'll notice the drawing is positioned in the corner of the page with little relationship to the page as a whole. A technique I regularly use to finish composing my drawings is joining them to the edge of the page by drawing a border, as we saw in the first unit, where we framed the plant with a thick 0.8 mm line. Now we'll do more or less the same with this drawing, but we'll add one more thing: color. I use color to emphasize negative space, in some cases like this, or to ...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Diary: Fill Your Sketchbook with Experiences
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
David Morales
A course by David Morales
David Morales is a Colombian architect and notebook artist based between Barcelona and his hometown, Ibagué. It was in architecture school that he began drawing in his notebook, trying to understand the proportions and material quality of buildings that he found interesting. Gradually, these notebooks became an inseparable element of his travels and his architectural work.
In 2018 he started an art project called "One Day One Drawing" in which he depicts his surroundings, family, and concerns on a daily basis. He has also created book covers for the publishing house Planeta (Spain) and for Taller Talante (Colombia).
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