Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
Ink Exercise: Magical Creatures
A course by Sveta Dorosheva , Illustrator
About the video: Ink Exercise: Magical Creatures
Overview
“Now let's have some real fun! In this lesson, I will share with you my obsession with crazy creatures from illuminated manuscripts. You will invent some of your own for your fairy tale. Then we will progress to the inking stage, using the techniques learned (scales, ornament, stippling). ”
In this video lesson Sveta Dorosheva addresses the topic: Ink Exercise: Magical Creatures, 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
“Ink Exercise: Magical Creatures One of my favorite pastimes is researching illuminated manuscripts in online libraries and looking up all those crazy creatures they are decorated with. In this lesson, we'll have some fun. We'll invent some hybrid creatures of our own. Fairy tale illustrators adore them. First, I want to show you what they're good for. Apart from being part of an illustration, they can also serve as separate vignettes and decorations for the book. For instance, in this book, I've used them as page decorations at the end of very short stories like this or like this. Now, let ...”
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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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