Animal Illustration with Charcoal and Ink
Opening Your Toolkit
A course by Laura McKendry , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Opening Your Toolkit
Overview
“To start, I will introduce you to the projects you will create in this course and share some important words about the inevitable frustrations of the creative process and how to combat them. I will also take you through the practical items you will need, including tools, materials, paper and everyday objects you can find around your home.”
In this video lesson Laura McKendry addresses the topic: Opening Your Toolkit, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animal Illustration with Charcoal and Ink. Embrace the simplicity of ink and charcoal and learn to print, draw, and paint striking black-and-white illustrations full of expression .
Partial transcription of the video
“ Opening Your Toolkit In this lesson, I'll show you the materials needed for this course. We'll be doing three final projects that all use different monochrome techniques. To start, we'll create a series of monoprints using objects that you can find around the house. Then, we'll move on to drawing a portrait using stick charcoal. Finally, we'll create an image using powdered charcoal. I wanted to create a course that covered some of these processes because it can be a forgiving way of creating illustrations without worrying about colour, and colour theory. It's bringing it back to its simp...”
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Course summary for: Animal Illustration with Charcoal and Ink
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Fine Arts, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration
Laura McKendry
A course by Laura McKendry
Laura McKendry is an illustrator and artist based in London, UK, who is renowned for incorporating unusual tools and materials into her watercolor and ink-based pieces. Her work can be found on greeting cards, wrapping paper, homeware, and fine art prints for clients like Artko, Impress, Jaccart, Laura Ashley, Papyrus, WHSmith, and Waterstones.
Her book cover illustration for André Alexis’ novel Fifteen Dogs was nominated for the V&A Illustration Awards in 2016. She also teaches short courses on drawing and illustration at Central Saint Martins and the University of Arts London, and runs online workshops that focus on finding ways to unlock creativity while perfecting creative techniques.
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