Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
The Importance of Research
A course by Sveta Dorosheva , Illustrator
About the video: The Importance of Research
Overview
“Next, it's time to find the answers to all those questions you brainstormed. I will take you through the research process that will help you to come up with a meaningful idea, fetching composition, and culturally authentic details. You will gather many references and allow the ideation phase to simmer down, before committing to any ideas for the final sketch. ”
In this video lesson Sveta Dorosheva addresses the topic: The Importance of Research, 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
“The Importance of Research At this point, I drop my sketch and go straight to the research, keeping in mind the elements I'll need for the drawing. I will need the costume, I will need to look up the headdress. I will need to look up Russian folklore drawings and art to figure out how birds are drawn, and whatever I'm missing in the drawing. I'm missing the surroundings, so I hope to find ideas for the palace or the environment in the research. You too should identify the elements that you need for your illustration, paying attention to traditional poses, in my case, also to dancing, then t...”
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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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