Digital Illustration of Fantasy Animals for Beginners
The Linework
A course by Jonas Jödicke , Digital Artist
About the video: The Linework
Overview
“Using the selected sketch as a base, I'll make a line drawing. The idea here is to capture the shapes and elements and define them as they will be in the final image. ”
In this video lesson Jonas Jödicke addresses the topic: The Linework, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration of Fantasy Animals for Beginners. Play around with composition, color, and light to create unique fantasy artwork using a graphics tablet and software.
Partial transcription of the video
“line drawing Now I create a line drawing, to define the main forms of my composition. Last I had me decided for the composition sketch no. 1. So now I'm deleting all levels that I don't need and with the transform tool I stretch my sketch to fill the entire canvas. The point of the line drawing is that I now sketch my composition want to improve and refine to define and plan the forms so how they should be in the final work. I would also like to plan how i combine the different elements of my image separate at different levels. I'll draw that here for demonstration in different colors. I wa...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration of Fantasy Animals for Beginners
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Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Jonas Jödicke
A course by Jonas Jödicke
Jonas Jödicke, also known on social media as JoJoesArt, is a freelance artist from Berlin, Germany. Passionate about fantasy art, he works almost exclusively in digital format and specializes in animal illustrations. He shares his pieces, often inspired by spiritual or personal themes, with more than 500K followers on social media. He also sells his illustrations in the form of prints, stickers, coloring books, and other products in his Etsy store.
Since 2015, his art has been his profession, and he's already collaborated with several well-known brands. One of his pieces, entitled Magic Deer, was chosen as Ravensburger's 2019 Puzzle of the Year and is a bestseller in many countries around the world. Similarly, one of his designs for the 2019 Exit puzzle series won the ASTRA award for best Children's Toy in the United States. Thanks to licensing contracts, Jonas sells his pieces as smartphone themes for Huawei, printed on clothing for The Mountain or his own brand Bittersweet Paris, as metal posters for Displate, as painting and craft kits through the Diamond Art Club, and as paint-by-number works.
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