Dreamlike Illustration: Draw Your Imagination

Overview

“In this lesson, we’ll cover some basic drawing techniques and tools that can help you loosen up and draw confidently. Because the level of detail we’re aiming for is really filled with detail, it’s important you learn how to fit multiple objects/figures/environments into small spaces, and find ways to connect one idea to another so that everything flows together. Doing this requires us to see how the shape or line of one thing relates to the shape/line of another. ”

In this video lesson Eva addresses the topic: The Basic Drawing: Seeing Shapes in Everything, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dreamlike Illustration: Draw Your Imagination. Learn to draw detailed, surreal illustrations by combining multiple perspectives, pencil sketching, shading, and inking techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“ The Basic Drawing: Seeing Shapes in Everything Previously, we collected references for our final drawing. In this lesson, I'll break down how I draw things in simple shapes and see shapes in everything I draw. For me, simple shapes can be anything from circles, squares, triangles, lines. Then, I like to connect these shapes or outline all of them to connect them and make the actual subject. I'll draw a few different examples now to show you what I mean. First, I’ll start by drawing a square. It's a little angled because I'll be drawing a house that's looking upwards and we're seeing it fr...”

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Course summary for: Dreamlike Illustration: Draw Your Imagination

• Level: Beginner
• 87% positive reviews (47)
• 2491 students
• 4 units
• 11 lessons (1h 21m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Drawing, Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration