Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
Finalizing the Lines
A course by Sveta Dorosheva , Illustrator
About the video: Finalizing the Lines
Overview
“Once the illustration is complete, you may need to adjust the thickness of key contour lines. Here I will exemplify the importance of tracing certain main elements a second time. This is an important final touch that will make the image stand out more. ”
In this video lesson Sveta Dorosheva addresses the topic: Finalizing the Lines, 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
“Finalizing the Lines I have completed my drawing and this is how it looks finished. In inking this work, I have used all the techniques I've shown you during the exercises. Let's take a closer look. For darker areas, the ones that are almost black, I have used close crosshatching and the little circles technique to create a dark shade. Since I have light elements in my drawing like these swans and the girl, I want the background to be dark. If I just fill it all with black, the image will look dull, so I use those various techniques to make it dark yet not black. The last secret I wanted to...”
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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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