Floral Illustration with Gouache Paint
Preparing to Print
A course by Malin Gyllensvaan , Illustrator and Pattern Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Preparing to Print
Overview
“To end this unit, I will show you how I prepare a print to be sent to the printers and printed into a poster. ”
In this video lesson Malin Gyllensvaan addresses the topic: Preparing to Print, which is part of the Domestika online course: Floral Illustration with Gouache Paint. Learn gouache techniques to paint an illustration of flora and fauna filled with color and detail.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson I'm going to show you how to prepare your artwork to be printed as a poster. So now in this lesson I'm going to show you how to prepare this image to go to the printers if you want to print a poster or an art print. So what we do first is that I want you to crop the image So we don't have anything outside. where you can see here, you just double click on it and it will cut everything that you can't see. Then what we'll do I like to have a white edge on my posters, i think that's quite nice. So we do approximately one and a half, If you just Take the arrow cursor here up here ...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Floral Illustration with Gouache Paint
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Botanical Illustration, Digital Illustration, Gouache Painting
Malin Gyllensvaan
A course by Malin Gyllensvaan
Based in Stockholm, Malin Gyllensvaan is inspired by vintage botanical studies. Her illustrations are a homage to the natural world, rendered in pencil and gouache. Over the years, her creations have adorned everything from stationery, puzzles, packaging, and textiles for both home and fashion, as well as illustrations for books.
She has a degree in printed textiles from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. After graduating, she worked as a textile designer for 12 years before going freelance as an illustrator. Some of her clients include IKEA, eeBoo, Anthropologie, Bespoke Press, Holt Renfrew, H&M, Åhléns, Amber Lotus, and Greenfinch books, among others.
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