Digital Illustration: When Color Meets Imagination
Refining Your Sketches
A course by Hedof , Illustrator
About the video: Refining Your Sketches
Overview
“Keep your mind open: you might also find some true gold in the rejection pile. In this lesson, you will see how to take an "ugly" sketch and transform it into a champ! After, I will introduce these sketches to the other winners and see if I can mix them together to form the final drawing. ”
In this video lesson Hedof addresses the topic: Refining Your Sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration: When Color Meets Imagination. Learn to improve your creative workflow and design vibrant illustrations that capture your unique style using Photoshop and Illustrator .
Partial transcription of the video
“ Refining Your Sketches In this lesson, we will refine our thumbnails and make them a bit bigger so we can focus a bit more on the actual characters. For this, I will use a lightbox because a lightbox allows me to copy the parts that I like in a bigger rough sketch and recreate new parts that I want to add. Again, I will start with the girl on the bottom. I know what her shape will be like. Then, I will add the tree. I think this would be a nice scale. Then, I will add the bear. Here you can see that they're no longer just blobs. The bear will look something like this. In this case, I can ...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration: When Color Meets Imagination
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

Hedof
A course by Hedof
Rick Berkelmans is an illustrator from The Netherlands. He always considered himself creative and, after impressing his classmates with a drawing of a dinosaur at just seven years old, he knew he wanted to pursue a career that involved illustrating. Rick went on to study at art school where he discovered a love for screen printing that kick-started his career. His work soon began getting noticed online and in galleries, leading to his first commissions.
Since then, Rick has established his own studio, Hedof, and worked on illustrations for apps, magazines, advertising campaigns, and packaging. He has also painted large-scale murals around the world. Rick’s clients include Nike, The New York Times , Nickelodeon, IKEA, Samsung, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Lotte World Mall, Nestlé, Green Man Festival, Red Bull, PlayStation, Snapchat, YouTube, WeTransfer, Google, and Facebook. He also shares his work with over 90K followers on Instagram.
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