Visual Language with Analogue & Digital Illustration Techniques
Sketchbooking from Imagination
A course by Lucy Sherston , Artist and illustrator
About the video: Sketchbooking from Imagination
Overview
“Now I have had a go at drawing from my reference images, I want to see if I can try drawing things that are harder to visualise. Here I will take a different approach and add images from my imagination and my associations to my sketchbook. ”
In this video lesson Lucy Sherston addresses the topic: Sketchbooking from Imagination, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Language with Analogue & Digital Illustration Techniques. Find your own personal visual language and experiment with analogue and digital illustration techniques..
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we'll take a slightly different approach, and we'll be adding images to our sketchbook using our imagination rather than drawing from reference. So when we were writing some of the themes that we're connected to in our mind map, quite a lot of them will probably be more kind of abstract than figurative. So these are the themes that we're going to be drawing from. So we'll start with the first one, which is the idea of a world. So these are the themes that are much harder to kind of visually put down on paper. They're going to take a little bit more thinking about, a little b...”
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Course summary for: Visual Language with Analogue & Digital Illustration Techniques
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Collage, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Sketching

Lucy Sherston
A course by Lucy Sherston
Lucy Sherston is a renowned artist and illustrator known for her captivating compositions that blur the lines between the abstract and the figurative. She enjoys exploring the circular journey between the physical and the virtual, allowing her ideas to take shape in sketchbooks, dissolve into digital creations, and finally materialize into unique art pieces like prints, flags, or even deckchairs!
Her artistic approach involves mixing techniques to maximize their potential, using manual drawing to nurture creativity and design software to focus on colors, proportions, and harmony. In this course, Lucy generously shares her method for unleashing your creativity through free pencil sketches and creating engaging digital collages. By the end of this creative journey, you'll be empowered to infuse your artwork with energy and meaning, embracing the synergy between digital and analog techniques.
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