Urban Sketching: Create Expressive Cityscapes
Documenting Your Drawing
A course by eleanor doughty , Illustrator
About the video: Documenting Your Drawing
Overview
“You can document the drawing in different ways for different applications. Here I will give you a few tips! ”
In this video lesson eleanor doughty addresses the topic: Documenting Your Drawing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Sketching: Create Expressive Cityscapes. Learn to create a lively and dynamic illustration of an urban scene using pencil, ink, marker, and watercolor to capture its mood and energy.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'm going to give you a few tips on how to document your drawing. For documentation purposes, I like to scan all my work For regular documentation, i scan at 300 DPI If I want to reproduce it at a larger scale, I'll use 600. And if I want to reproduce it at a super large scale, I go up to... 1200 DPI or whatever my scanner's maximum is. If I'm scanning my sketchbook, i'll physically press the binding of my book down into the scanning bed area so a flat image is obtained. If you're scanning a painting on a loose paper, You will get the best scan if you put a book or a heavy o...”
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Course summary for: Urban Sketching: Create Expressive Cityscapes
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Ink Illustration, Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Watercolor Painting
eleanor doughty
A course by eleanor doughty
Eleanor Doughty is an illustrator, painter, and teacher who specializes in urban sketching. After exploring the creative world while growing up near Washington DC, she studied communication arts with a focus on illustration at Virginia Commonwealth University, which led to collaborations in the editorial field. Combining her love for travel and drawing, she discovered her niche as a freelance location illustrator.
Using mixed media to create expressive sketches of urban scenes, Eleanor embraces a gestural approach to convey the vibe and energy of a place whimsically and authentically. She has collaborated with magazines and newspapers such as VICE, The Seattle Times, Lion’s Roar, and The Boston Globe, as well as companies like Hilton Hotels, Penguin Random House, and Kroger.
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