Sketchbooking for Beginners: Learn to Draw Your Surroundings
Creating Basic Compositions
A course by Maximiliano Vera Herrera , Illustrator
About the video: Creating Basic Compositions
Overview
“In this lesson, I will give you some tips to create a basic composition from scratch, using references and following the same methodology of shapes and tones.”
In this video lesson Maximiliano Vera Herrera addresses the topic: Creating Basic Compositions, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbooking for Beginners: Learn to Draw Your Surroundings. Overcome your fear of the blank page and learn the fundamentals of drawing any object like a pro.
Partial transcription of the video
“Create Basic Compositions In this lesson, I will show you how to create a composition from scratch using good references. This may seem a bit complicated, but, if you have the correct references, I assure you it will be a very simple process. I’ll show you how I do it. To begin with, I used a photo of a scene, of an animal, and, in this case, a photo of a jockey. In this exercise, I will combine these three elements in a composition. For this, we will start with the background. We have our image. We will split our canvas. As you can see in this picture, our vanishing point is about halfway ...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbooking for Beginners: Learn to Draw Your Surroundings
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Maximiliano Vera Herrera
A course by Maximiliano Vera Herrera
Max Vera is a professional illustrator who has collaborated with a range of studios from around the world on editorial projects, animation backgrounds, and character design. Although much of his work is produced digitally, his favorite kind of drawing is done on the street, or in museums, where he always finds something interesting to depict in his sketchbooks.
Over the course of his career, he has worked with brands throughout South America and the United States. He has also participated in group exhibitions such as Muerte Lenta, PlayFair, and Cartoon Madness.
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