Ink Illustration: Develop Your Visual Language
Colours
A course by Simon Prades , Illustrator and Drawing Artist
About the video: Colours
Overview
“Now I will color the previously made drawing with ink. I will talk about colors in general and painting with ink in particular.”
In this video lesson Simon Prades addresses the topic: Colours, 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
“Colours In the previous lesson we did a small study and will now color them with colored inks. First, once the line drawing, the final drawing is finished, you can with the eraser this framework, i.e. the pencil drawing, simply erase and only the line of the fineliner remains. It depends on the paper. Eraser is almost a science in itself. It's paper, but it works randomly now. And if the paper is good, almost anyone can do it. Now I messed it up. But it's not so good for the paper here. When working with pigmented color inks is it important to know that the ink, as it is in the keg, is very...”
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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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