Botanical Illustration: From Notebook to Print
Choice and dissection
A course by David Morales , Architect and Illustrator
About the video: Choice and dissection
Overview
“Now comes the time to choose the botanical species of reference and decide what information about it we may be interested in drawing.”
In this video lesson David Morales addresses the topic: Choice and dissection, 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
“Selection and Dissection In this lesson, we’ll choose our plant species and decide what kinds of details or what parts of it we might want to draw. One of the most fun parts is choosing the type of species that we’ll document. For me, it’s always a choice that comes from a feeling. For example, I draw philodendrons because it’s a species that I have in the garden in front of my house, and it also moves because it has aerial branches, so they have aerial roots, and they move over time. That fact really interests me, and it’s why I draw them. In this case, I've decided I’m going to draw a fig...”
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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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