Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
Scanning and File Preparation
A course by Kyle Ellingson , Illustrator
About the video: Scanning and File Preparation
Overview
“Now that the inked sketch is complete, let's begin prepping the file for color. Here I will walk you through scanning and file preparation in Adobe Photoshop. ”
In this video lesson Kyle Ellingson addresses the topic: Scanning and File Preparation , which is part of the Domestika online course: Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories. Use intuitive journaling to unlock new approaches to drawing and transform everyday objects into memorable illustrations that tell a story.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Scanning and File Preparation In the previous lesson, we finalized our ink and in this lesson, we will scan it into Photoshop. Let's get started. We're going to begin by prepping our file for color. I have scanned my large original art into Photoshop in four big chunks. This is necessary when you have oversized artwork and you're working with a smaller printer. I was working with a ledger-sized printer, 11 inches × 17 inches scanning flatbed surface. I needed to rotate my artwork three times to get four scans. Luckily, Photoshop has an excellent feature called Photomerge. Because I scan d...”
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Course summary for: Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Narrative
Kyle Ellingson
A course by Kyle Ellingson
Kyle Ellingson is a freelance illustrator living in Brooklyn, New York. He first started drawing as a child, encouraged by his grandfather, a printmaker, and his uncle, a visual effects artist. He went on to study creative writing and philosophy at college and working at bookstores in his spare time when he discovered the possibilities of visual narrative. Kyle later attended the illustration practice program at Maryland Institute College of Art, creating a final project that attracted his first freelance editorial jobs.
Since then, he’s been featured in by a number of notable blogs and created illustrations for clients including New York Magazine, The New York Times, Billboard, Financial Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker.
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