Ink Illustration: Develop Your Visual Language
Transferring to the Final Format
A course by Simon Prades , Illustrator and Drawing Artist
About the video: Transferring to the Final Format
Overview
“Having decided on a composition, we transfer the sketch to the paper with a pencil. You can draw very loosely and freely, because the detailed elaboration comes later.”
In this video lesson Simon Prades addresses the topic: Transferring to the Final Format, 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
“Transfer to final format In the previous lesson we met busy with the composition the terms that were important to us brought together in small compositions and finally decided on a composition which we will now transfer from the sketchbook to paper. To transfer the sketch we take the pencil. Similar to the study, this pencil drawing serves mainly as a scaffold. Later we will do the pencil drawing replace with the line drawing. That means we can now try very freely and easily transfer the design and we'll get down to the detailed elaboration later. When transferring, it is important that we ...”
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Course summary for: Ink Illustration: Develop Your Visual Language
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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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