Botanical Illustration: From Notebook to Print
Volume, color and annotations 1
A course by David Morales , Architect and Illustrator
About the video: Volume, color and annotations 1
Overview
“Next, I'll show you how to add more information to your drawing. We will talk about volume, color and what other data could be interesting to document.”
In this video lesson David Morales addresses the topic: Volume, color and annotations 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Illustration: From Notebook to Print. Learn how to transform the ink drawings in your sketchbook into colorful digital illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“Volume, Color, and Annotations In this lesson, I’ll show you how to add content to your drawings. We’ll talk about color, volume, and the details that might be worth documenting. The first element that I like to capture is volume. Elements like color, geometry, and especially materiality, cause light to reflect differently. That's what we’ll do next. You can capture this geometry or these tonal shifts via several methods. You can do it with pencil, ink, watercolors, in color. The key is to capture the tone of the element in front of us. As in the last lesson, we’ll start with our mushroom, ...”
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Course summary for: Botanical Illustration: From Notebook to Print
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Areas
Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
David Morales
A course by David Morales
David Morales is a Colombian architect and notebook artist based between Barcelona and his hometown of Ibagué. It was in architecture school that he began drawing in his notebook, trying to understand the proportions and material quality of buildings that he found interesting. Gradually, these notebooks became an inseparable element of his travels and his architectural work.
In 2018, he started an art project called ""One Day One Drawing"" in which he depicts his surroundings, family, and concerns on a daily basis. He has also created book covers for the publishing house Planeta, Spain and for Taller Talante, Colombia.
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