Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
Digitizing and Refining Your Work
A course by Sveta Dorosheva , Illustrator
About the video: Digitizing and Refining Your Work
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to digitize your finished drawing: by scanning it, cropping, adjusting the contrast of black and white, and correcting mistakes. ”
In this video lesson Sveta Dorosheva addresses the topic: Digitizing and Refining Your Work, 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
“Digitizing and Refining Your Work In this lesson, I will show you what I do after the work is done. I scan it, crop it, adjust the contrast of black and white, and correct the mistakes if necessary. Let's see. I open my scan in Photoshop. First and foremost, I check the resolution in Image Size. My scanner scans in high resolution, 800 DPI. For print, we need only 300 DPI, but to be on the safe side, I will make it 600. We don't need it that large. Now, as you can see, my image is upside down. Let me rotate it. Go to Image, Image Rotation, 180 degrees. Ok, good. Now I need to check whether ...”
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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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