Ink Illustration: Develop Your Visual Language
Studies
A course by Simon Prades , Illustrator and Drawing Artist
About the video: Studies
Overview
“Sign studies are an essential part of the sign itself. It's less about the result and much more about practicing, trying out new things, for example with hatching or composition, and also about finding your own style. You can learn more about it in this lesson!”
In this video lesson Simon Prades addresses the topic: Studies, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ink Illustration: Develop Your Visual Language. Learn to create personal illustrations with depth and contrast through line work and layers of colored ink.
Partial transcription of the video
“studies In the last lesson we made a list of terms and translated into small drawings in our sketchbook. In this lesson we will create a study make a drawing on A3 paper and then color them afterwards. Studies in general, i.e. small drawing studies, can't do enough. I think it's like a little exercise. It's less about the result, the drawing itself, but rather to practice eye-hand coordination. In principle you can do every day before work as small warm-up exercises, but also in the sketchbook, when we are somewhere and something pleases us. Be it just three minutes. A quick sketch in the b...”
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Course summary for: Ink Illustration: Develop Your Visual Language
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Fine Arts, Ink Illustration
Simon Prades
A course by Simon Prades
Simón Prades is an illustrator and drawing artist with over a decade of experience in the publishing, literature, music, film, and gaming industries. He's always had a passion for traditional techniques, classic drawing with pencil and ink, and other analog forms of art, which he often combines with digital tools in his work.
His client list includes major publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Die Zeit, and Der Spiegel. His work has also been recognized with a Society of Illustrators and American Illustration award. When he's not creating for his clients, he devotes his time to personal projects where he can explore new ideas and techniques.
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