Record Cover Design with Pencil Illustration Techniques

Tracing

A course by Charlotte Delarue , Art Director Specialized in Illustration

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253 students

Audio: French

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About the video: Tracing

Overview

“Here you will see how to trace the outlines of the image. This tracing step serves as a benchmark for the filling phase that will come later. It is therefore important to make fairly light strokes.”

In this video lesson Charlotte Delarue addresses the topic: Tracing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Record Cover Design with Pencil Illustration Techniques. Create a compelling album cover by combining realistic illustration techniques like pencil sketching, photomontage, and typography.

Partial transcription of the video

“tracing In this lesson, we will move on to tracing, the step following the photomontage. So I printed my photomontage on an A3 format. Always leave bleeds for the printer. When it goes to print, it needs to cut a little bit inside the design. In this way, we are sure that there will be no white around it. For this lesson I am using a light table and two sheets of paper, one on which I will draw and another to put my hand and not damage the sheet on which I will draw. I will also use my 3mm mechanical pencil, a clean square eraser. I will also use scotch not too strong to fix the sheet on wh...”

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Course summary for: Record Cover Design with Pencil Illustration Techniques

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (12)
253 students
4 units
21 lessons (4h 37m)
3 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Typography

Charlotte Delarue

A course by Charlotte Delarue

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Art Director Specialized in Illustration

Charlotte Delarue is an art director specialized in illustration. Drawing has always been an important part of her life, so naturally she chose to study applied arts at EPSAA. She worked for seven years for the Surface to Air studio, an experience that allowed her to try her hand at everything and create her very first illustrations for the music industry.

She finally moved to New York and began a freelance career that allowed her to hone her style with a mechanical pencil. Since then, she has worked in the press for the likes of So Press, Les Inrocks, the Wall Street Journal, and Society, for music artists such as Metronomy, Selena Gomez, Yarol, and Clara Luciani, and start-ups like Glossier, Etendard Management, and Sourcewhere.