Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
Scene Selection and Draft Composition
A course by Sveta Dorosheva , Illustrator
About the video: Scene Selection and Draft Composition
Overview
“In this lesson, I will share my criteria for scene selection and discuss the initial treatment of the scene. I will cover the key decisions you need to make for depicting the scene: what questions arise and how they have been previously resolved in artworks. If you don't have any ideas for an image at this point, that's normal. This is the brainstorming stage: posing questions is more crucial than finding the answers. ”
In this video lesson Sveta Dorosheva addresses the topic: Scene Selection and Draft Composition, 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
“Scene Selection and Draft Composition I have selected the scene of the magical dance, a revelatory scene where everybody sees that she's an unusual celestial woman. Here's why I selected this particular scene. It's a miracle. Miracles are always worth to illustrate in a fairytale. Second, it moves the plot forward. It's crucial for the plot of the fairytale. Third, it has a major character in it. Fourth, it's beautiful. Please select your scene following these key points. What I usually do next is look up how the scene was treated by other artists in illustration or how the topic was approa...”
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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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