Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
Materials
A course by Sveta Dorosheva , Illustrator
About the video: Materials
Overview
“Here I will show the materials I will use for my drawing. I encourage you to use a drawing nib and ink, but you can also do the final drawing with a regular black roller pen or ballpoint pen. ”
In this video lesson Sveta Dorosheva addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink. Explore creative inking techniques to bring to life magical illustrations for fairy tales that capture the culture, time, and magic of the story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Materials In this lesson, I'll show you the tools and materials I'll use for the drawing. I'll start by using pencils for the draft. I usually draw the draft with a 0.5 mm mechanical pencil. I also use a hard and soft pencil for the tonal skin. We will need a sharpener for them. I also use a thin mechanical eraser for the draft. It can erase single lines, but I don't use it for the clean copy. I also have a replacement for the eraser and the mechanical pencil. For the ink, we will use the usual nib holders and the nibs. I use Leonardt brand 700 fine drawing nibs. I started with the regular ...”
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Course summary for: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Ink Illustration
Sveta Dorosheva
A course by Sveta Dorosheva
Sveta Dorosheva is a Ukrainian illustrator, currently living in Israel. She works in book illustration and narrative art for magazines and brands, which are deeply influenced by myth and fairy tales. She is a self-trained artist, and started her professional career by writing and illustrating her own book, “The Land of Stone Flowers”. Originally published in 2014, it was nominated for the National Bestseller award in 2016, and has also been translated into more than five languages.
Her work is hand-drawn on paper, merging a lot of mythical and traditional motifs from various cultures with contemporary ideas. She’s worked with numerous publishing houses to create art for books, including HarperCollins, Penguin Books, Macmillan, Disney-Hyperion, Usborne, and Chronicle Books. Sveta has also created artwork for movies, including The True Adventures of Wolfboy, commercial art for advertising agencies like JWT New York or D8 studio in Glasgow, and editorial pieces for magazines like The New Yorker and The LA Times.
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