Flavorful Food Illustration with Watercolor

Flavorful Food Illustration with Watercolor

“Congratulations on reaching the end of this course! Thank you for joining me. I do hope you've enjoyed the process and now feel ready to paint many watercolour illustrations. It is now time to work on your project. This could mean finishing the illustration you started while completing the exercises or you could start a brand new project! Either way, I strongly suggest you take the time to gather inspiration and make a unique project of your own. Make sure to keep track of your progress with different pictures of each step. It'd be great if you could also explain the choices you've made along the way and tell me if you have any doubts. This will help me understand your creative process and guide you better if you need advice. Reference Images and Sketch Choose the object you want to paint and research reference images. Once you have a clear idea of what you want to do, make a sketch of your illustration.

Directly on paper with a pencil, or using a lightbox, transfer your sketch onto the watercolour paper. Watercolours Come up with a colour palette for your project. Start your painting process by using masking fluid to cover any section you will want to highlight. Let it dry before moving on to the watercolours. When you paint, work with the lighter colours of your palette first and move progressively towards the darker tones. The last step will be to add shadows, details, and lines to better define the different elements of your composition. Digitalisation Once you've finished, you can digitise your illustration and use the images for your portfolio. You could also turn them into products, greeting cards, stickers! Be creative! Upload your projects! To do so, click on the "Create your project" button. I’ll be checking in from time to time to look at your posts and answer your questions, but the forum is also an amazing opportunity to give and receive feedback from fellow creatives. Get involved with your peers! See you on the forum!”

Partial transcription of the video

“ Final Project Thank you for joining this course. It's coming to an end. Let's go through what we did. Let's start with my influences, things that motivate and inspire me to draw and become a watercolour artist and an illustrator. You can look at other artists and learn something from them. We then talked about tools and materials. Types of tools to create a food highlight, a comparison of the watercolour paper, and the difference between cold-pressed paper and hot-pressed paper. If you are a beginner, I recommend using cold-pressed paper. You may find it easier. Then we experimented with ...”

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Course summary for: Flavorful Food Illustration with Watercolor

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (202)
• 5837 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 23m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting