Character Painting with Gouache and Colored Pencils

Transferring Your Sketch

A course by Sarah Walsh , Artist and Illustrator

Artist and Illustrator. Kansas City, United States.
Joined September 2021
100% positive reviews (30)
1,359 students
Audio: English
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About the video: Transferring Your Sketch

Overview

“Now, I'll bring my thumbnail into Procreate to complete my tight sketch with all the details.”

In this video lesson Sarah Walsh addresses the topic: Transferring Your Sketch, 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

“ Transferring Your Sketch In the last lesson, we talked about thumbnails, keeping it loose, giving yourself flexibility and not zeroing in too much on the detail so that we can focus on the composition as a whole. In this lesson, we'll focus on the details. We'll take a picture of the thumbnail and bring it in Procreate so that we can blow it up and define the different aspects of our final project. Here, we have our thumbnail. I have it in a size that I want to create the final piece. I'll do 11 x 14. I make the document that size and bring the thumbnail into that. I want to remind you th...”

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Course summary for: Character Painting with Gouache and Colored Pencils

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (30)
  • 1359 students
  • 4 units
  • 14 lessons (2h 58m)
  • 1 download
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Photoshop, Procreate
  • Areas

    Character Design, Colored Pencil Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Gouache Painting, Sketching

Sarah Walsh

Sarah Walsh
A course by Sarah Walsh

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Artist and Illustrator

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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Character Painting with Gouache and Colored Pencils. Illustration course by Sarah Walsh

Character Painting with Gouache and Colored Pencils

A course by Sarah Walsh
Artist and Illustrator. Kansas City, United States.
Joined September 2021
  • 100% positive reviews (30)
  • 1,359 students