Freehand Sketching with Acrylic and Watercolor
Color, Light, Texture, and Detail 1
A course by Mokshini , Illustrator
About the video: Color, Light, Texture, and Detail 1
Overview
“Now that the base of our illustration is done, we’ll explore how to make your image more interesting and dynamic by playing with color, light, textures, and other details.”
In this video lesson Mokshini addresses the topic: Color, Light, Texture, and Detail 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Freehand Sketching with Acrylic and Watercolor. Learn to draw from observation and fill your scenes with color, light, and texture using different painting techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Color, Light, Texture, and Detail In this lesson, I'll talk to you about texture, color, light, detail, and how they can enhance your drawing. I mapped out all the grass, and what I wanted to do with the grass was capture a bit more texture. Also, things like trees are cool objects to play with in terms of adding more texture. Texture is fun because you can use old brushes, a palette knife, your toothbrush, and create a spray effect. I want to try and play with this brush a bit. You could see over here in my little swatch card that it creates a cool grassy texture, so I want to play with ...”
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Course summary for: Freehand Sketching with Acrylic and Watercolor
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Acrylic Painting, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Watercolor Painting
Mokshini
A course by Mokshini
Mokshini is an illustrator and painter from Sri Lanka, who currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She’s loved art ever since she could pick up a pencil, and participated in many drawing classes growing up, encouraged by her artistic parents. She went on to study fashion design in New Zealand, where the drawings for her final project attracted a lot of attention and convinced her to take her art more seriously. Mokshini later went on to work as an illustration teacher at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and in textile design for Calvin Klein, as well as drawing in-house at Ralph Lauren.
Four years later, she made the move to pursue a freelance career and has since collaborated with clients including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Estée Lauder, Harper’s Bazaar, The BBC, and Vans. She also shares her work with over 15K followers on Instagram.
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