Animal Illustration with Charcoal and Ink
How to Store the Work
A course by Laura McKendry , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: How to Store the Work
Overview
“Charcoal drawings need to be preserved carefully. Here, I will show you the best ways to protect your original drawings and prevent them from smudging.”
In this video lesson Laura McKendry addresses the topic: How to Store the Work, 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
“ How to Store the Work Now, I'll show you how you can protect your work and store it properly. When you finish your drawing, to stop it from smudging anymore, you need to spray it with a fixative. You can buy this from an art store. You should get colourless fixative, which means that over time, the white of your paper won't discolour. Fixative is designed to protect drawings so that they don't smudge, but hairspray is much cheaper and it has the same effect, but it will discolour. For rough sketches, that I'm using as part of a process, I might spray them with hairspray because, in the mo...”
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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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