Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop
Rough Line Sketches
A course by Eric Castleman , Children's Book Illustrator
About the video: Rough Line Sketches
Overview
“I will show you how to create a rough sketch without worrying about it to be exact at this stage. Keeping reference images by your side that you have researched will help you create a character and a scene. ”
In this video lesson Eric Castleman addresses the topic: Rough Line Sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop. Recreate traditional painting techniques with digital tools by exploring colors and textures to make vibrant illustrations for children’s books.
Partial transcription of the video
“Rough Line Sketches In this lesson, I want to take the value thumbnail that we put together and found something interesting and start to move things around to where we want them. Now that we have found something that we want to paint, I will take this image from here and I will go to a new canvas and see what we can get out of it. I will come in here and paste this in. I will make this somewhat in the middle. I wanted to make it bigger than it was because we'll be a little more detailed but our thinking here is design. We went from R & D, throwing paint onto the canvas feeling, now we're go...”
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Course summary for: Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Eric Castleman
A course by Eric Castleman
Eric Castleman is a children’s book illustrator living in Montana who specializes in traditional painting techniques with digital tools. His interest in illustration started as a child and, having an artist for a brother and a sister interested in crafts, he was always creative growing up. He spent time drawing during school but didn’t consider art as a career until his wife, a painter, bought him a book on how to build a business from his passion.
Since then, Eric has worked for Highlights magazine, and The Monster Project, and has been featured by Kidlit411, Society of Visual Storytelling, and multiple art galleries. He works primarily in mixed media, integrating unique textures and light into his work.
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