Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
The Magical World of Fairy Tales
A course by Sveta Dorosheva , Illustrator
About the video: The Magical World of Fairy Tales
Overview
“Let's get you in the mood :). The key thing to take away from this lesson is the mindset necessary for illustrating a fairy tale: learn to treat fantasy and reality as one and the same. Here I will discuss why. After that I will tell you my fairy tale of choice and pick a scene to illustrate. Start thinking about which fairy tale you would like to visualize, if you haven't picked one already. ”
In this video lesson Sveta Dorosheva addresses the topic: The Magical World of Fairy Tales, 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
“As a child, I was of very weak health and spent many hours in bed. and my dad read me fairy tales. We had books of unabridged fairy tales that were not adapted for kids. I was enthralled by a strange murky world. Everything turned into everything else. Beasts talked and threw off their skins to turn into humans. The mysterious dead water revived the dead. a forest which lived in a house on chicken legs and threw the uncautious travelers into the underworld. People returned from a one-day trip to the underwater king to discover that hundreds of years have passed in their homeland. Poisoned p...”
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Course summary for: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
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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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