Illustration for Tarot: Crafting Your Signature Style
Digital capture
A course by Elisa Seitzinger , Visual Artist
About the video: Digital capture
Overview
“In this lesson we will move on to digital image capture using the scanner. I will show you how to decide the parameters for the right contrast in order to obtain sharp blacks and “clean” whites. Subsequently I will correct any small imperfections in the manual drawing and I will teach you a little trick on how to define the thickness of the contour line.”
In this video lesson Elisa Seitzinger addresses the topic: Digital capture, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration for Tarot: Crafting Your Signature Style. Learn to blend classical art aesthetics with modern digital techniques, meanwhile developing your distinctive style crafting Tarot card illustrations..
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will learn how to capture the image digitally. Our Akina drawing will be captured in Photoshop in order to be colored. I recommend scanning the image at 600 dpi. The process is a little longer, but surely in this way you will have the opportunity to print your handicraft too. Obviously the cards in a deck are printed in a very small format, but you never know what can happen to you. For example, for my retrospective exhibition in Ascoli Piceno it happened to me that I had to set up an entire room with gigantic printed arcana, two meters high. And so it was very helpful for...”
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Course summary for: Illustration for Tarot: Crafting Your Signature Style
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration
Elisa Seitzinger
A course by Elisa Seitzinger
Elisa Seitzinger is a talented visual artist and illustrator known for her unique style inspired by medieval art, Russian icons, and Byzantine mosaics. With a passion for human figures, hieratic faces, and fantastic or monstrous animals, Elisa's work has been featured in various mediums, including newspapers, magazines, clothing, textiles, posters, music albums, books, and tarot cards.
Her fascination with tarot cards and their powerful symbolic and communicative charge led her to explore the depths of traditional symbolism and develop her own visual language. Through continuous research and observation, Elisa has crafted a style that remains true to her cultural background while evolving over time.
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