Botanical Illustration: From Notebook to Print
From sketch to ink: our drawings 1
A course by David Morales , Architect and Illustrator
About the video: From sketch to ink: our drawings 1
Overview
“Next, we will add the ink tone information to the drawings. We will use the crosshatching technique to add volume to the sketches.”
In this video lesson David Morales addresses the topic: From sketch to ink: our drawings 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
“From Sketch to Ink Our Drawings In this lesson, we’ll start to use ink to add information about tone in order to add volume to our plant. To ink it, we’ll use a calibrated marker. We’ll start with a 005, and, if we need to emphasize something, we can use a slightly thicker one. I usually use the thinnest one to start. First we’ll ink in the whole figs, which are the simplest. The volume is a bit tricky because they're round, so we’ll try to use tone to create that illusion of turning the circle we drew more into a sphere than a flat circle. I find vertical hatching most comfortable, and I a...”
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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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