Artistic Gouache Painting: Animals and Plant Life

Overview

“In this lesson I will teach you how to break down general shapes into simpler forms, my process for drawing animals, and how to add botanical elements to your compositions. ”

In this video lesson Alejandra Caballero addresses the topic: Drawing animals, sketching process , which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Gouache Painting: Animals and Plant Life. Learn the basics of gouache painting. Find your inspiration for animal portraits, go through the sketching process, and discover your unique style..

Partial transcription of the video

“Now that we've covered the basics of gouache, we'll move on to drawing our animals, aiming to give them expressiveness. Later, I'll show you how to add botanical elements. Join me! I'm in Photoshop and have the reference ready for my drawing. The first thing I want to quickly show you is how this dog is actually made up of different geometric shapes. Its head, for example, fits into what could be a trapezoid. Its ears are small triangles. The fur on its neck could also fit within a triangle. Here we can see how there's a slanted direction. We can draw a guide line. All the lines I'm drawing...”

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Course summary for: Artistic Gouache Painting: Animals and Plant Life

• Level: Beginner
• 94% positive reviews (18)
• 1105 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 16m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting