Character Painting with Gouache and Colored Pencils
Create Your Final Painting 1
A course by Sarah Walsh , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Create Your Final Painting 1
Overview
“This lesson is all about the final painting! I've transferred my tight sketch onto a piece of paper for the final painting. For this, you can use carbon paper, tracing paper, or a printer. Now, I'll talk about paper and brushes, and then I'll move on to painting.”
In this video lesson Sarah Walsh addresses the topic: Create Your Final Painting 1, 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
“ Create Your Final Painting In the last lesson, we did our final color study in Procreate. In this lesson, we'll get our paint out and do the final project. First, I want to talk to you about paper. With painting, it is important to pick a paper that is thick enough to withstand the water content in your paint. With acrylic gouache, it's good to have some tooth to the paper. Tooth means a bit of texture so that it holds the paint properly. A little bit of tooth also gives you flexibility. If you want to go a little more watery with your gouache, you can. It will withstand that water and it...”
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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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