Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
Working with Ink
A course by Sveta Dorosheva , Illustrator
About the video: Working with Ink
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to use the nib and ink. You will learn how to execute basic techniques; like hatching, cross-hatching, stippling, squiggling, and "small circles" texture. ”
In this video lesson Sveta Dorosheva addresses the topic: Working with Ink, 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
“Working with Ink In this lesson, we will start working with ink. If you're doing it for the first time, we will try all the tools and see how they work. If you're used to working with a nib, it's always good to exercise a bit before going on to the final work. For the exercises, we will need ink, nibs, water, and tissue to clean the nib and paper. It can be any type of paper, but please make sure before the lesson that it doesn't bleed and the ink doesn't feather. Before we start, I'll show you how to grab the tool. The nib should be this side up, not this side up, so like this. After you d...”
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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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