Expressive Watercolor Painting: Create Compelling Illustrations
The Sketch
A course by Reha Sakar , Visual Artist
About the video: The Sketch
Overview
“Let's get the line work done in this lesson! Before starting to paint, I will prepare a sketch of the piece, paying attention to drawing the shapes correctly.”
In this video lesson Reha Sakar addresses the topic: The Sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Watercolor Painting: Create Compelling Illustrations. Learn watercolor techniques to capture the mood and atmosphere of a scene in both black and white and in color.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Sketch In this lesson, I will sketch a photo from Fan Ho. As I mentioned before, value sketches are very important. That's why I try to study and paint black-and-white photos of great photographers. It is important to capture the mood. We will learn how to build depth with watercolors using only one color. When I paint, I don't care about the colors. All that matters are the values. If you take out the values from a painting, it will look like nothing, just splashes of color. If you take color out of your paintings, they will still read well, the depth, the composition, and everything...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Watercolor Painting: Create Compelling Illustrations
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Painting, Watercolor Painting
Reha Sakar
A course by Reha Sakar
Reha Sakar is a Turkish artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He first began painting as a young child with his mother and fellow artist. After studying astronomy at university and working as an insurance broker during the holidays, he soon realized that art was his true passion. From there, he took a course in Photoshop and discovered his talent for 3D art, which kick-started his creative career.
Since then, Reha has worked in digital media for more than 10 years. He has created promotional material for Call of Duty, Diablo III, The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Marvel’s Avengers, World War Z, Rango, Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, and more. He has also written articles on matte painting and worked with sports leagues including the NHL.
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