Sketchbook Exercises for Artistic Growth
Making a Final Piece
A course by Sarah van Dongen , Illustrator
Joined March 2020
About the video: Making a Final Piece
Overview
“What can you do with all your drawings and exercises? I will give you some tips, so you can use the sketches in your sketchbook for creating a final piece. ”
In this video lesson Sarah van Dongen addresses the topic: Making a Final Piece, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook Exercises for Artistic Growth. Discover tools and techniques for developing your creative skills, overcoming creative blocks, and unlocking your imagination in the pages of your sketchbook .
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'm going to show how I've used the exercises we did during this course for a final piece in my sketchbook. So now that you've done all the exercises in this course, It's time to look at what we've done and maybe take some of the marks that we've made and the drawings that we've made and use them to create a more final illustration. So for example, in this illustration that I've made, I've obviously used many different marks. So this is a drawing where I have used this mark making exercise, right? And as you can see, I've also used many different materials. So this drawing i...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbook Exercises for Artistic Growth
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Drawing, Fine Arts, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Sarah van Dongen
A course by Sarah van Dongen
Sarah van Dongen is a Dutch illustrator based in Amsterdam who is passionate about telling stories. She began her studies in comparative literature but enrolled in the MA in Children’s Books Illustration in Cambridge, UK after realizing she wanted to pursue a more creative career.
Sarah’s illustration work can be found in children’s books, stationery, newspapers, and magazines across the globe. Her clients include Flow Magazine, Adobe, Tiny Owl Publishing, and Ragged Bears Publishing, among others. Sarah enjoys exploring themes like gardens, food, social interactions, mental health, and her childhood. She doesn’t shy away from subjects like insecurity, loneliness, and loss, she expresses them in her sketches to help make these feelings more comprehensible.
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