Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
Final Sketch and Tonal Scheme
A course by Sveta Dorosheva , Illustrator
About the video: Final Sketch and Tonal Scheme
Overview
“In this lesson, I will demonstrate how to draw a detailed sketch to test all the ideas, both in terms of composition and tonality.”
In this video lesson Sveta Dorosheva addresses the topic: Final Sketch and Tonal Scheme, 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
“Final Sketch and Tonal Scheme Now, I will make the final sketch. The size of the final drawing is A3. I will start with the princess. This is a piece of paper I use for my hand in order not to mess up the drawing. I'll start with the main character because she's in the center of the composition. A few words about drawing the face. When drawing the face on a full-height figure, bear in mind that each line you use makes the character older, so the fewer lines, the better. From the references, we have figured out what the headdress looks like, but I will add some elements of my own to it. For ...”
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Course summary for: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
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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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