Character Painting with Gouache and Colored Pencils
Exploring Material Techniques
A course by Sarah Walsh , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Exploring Material Techniques
Overview
“There's a number of ways you can combine materials. I'll show you how to mix materials and record them in your sketchbook for your course project.”
In this video lesson Sarah Walsh addresses the topic: Exploring Material Techniques, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Painting with Gouache and Colored Pencils. Channel your inner magic and bring meaningful characters to life with gouache paint, colored pencils, and digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Exploring Material Techniques In the last lesson, I showed you my inspiration and how to go about making your own mood board. In this lesson, we'll go over a few basic techniques to help you get some extra grittiness and texture into your final project. The first thing I want to show you is an overlay with colored pencil. We'll take one colored pencil, do a block of color, and then go over it with another color. You want to make sure each color complements the other and it will give a nice vibrational effect. In the final project, I want to have some plants and some greenery. I want to sh...”
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Course summary for: Character Painting with Gouache and Colored Pencils
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Character Design, Colored Pencil Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Gouache Painting, Sketching
Sarah Walsh
A course by Sarah Walsh
Sarah Walsh is an artist and illustrator with over 20 years of experience. She completed a BFA in graphic design in New York, where she grew up, and went on to work as an in-house designer and illustrator at Hallmark Cards before starting her freelance career.
Since then, Sarah has collaborated with brands like PBS, The Washington Post The Guardian, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Crate & Barrel. She also runs and creates artwork for Tigersheep Friends, an illustration-based shop that she founded in collaboration with a fellow illustrator. Sarah works with a variety of materials, from gouache to pencil, and has experience in artistic mediums from pattern design and hand lettering to home decor design. She is known for her playful style and shares her work with over 70K followers on Instagram.
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