Visual Language with Analogue & Digital Illustration Techniques
Creating Textures and Adding to the Layout 1
A course by Lucy Sherston , Artist and illustrator
About the video: Creating Textures and Adding to the Layout 1
Overview
“Now I have the main structure for my final image, I will move back to analogue techniques and look at the image as a whole. I will think if there is anything I can add at this stage to help the piece flow together. Then, using a light box, I will begin painting and creating textures for all the images in my composition.”
In this video lesson Lucy Sherston addresses the topic: Creating Textures and Adding to the Layout 1, 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're going to create textures and blocks of color to layer up for our final illustration. So now we've printed out our final composition, we're just going to go over it one more time and just have a look at how things are flowing, how it's looking, and at this point, if there are any little clumps, we can just go ahead and remove them. So, we're going to go ahead and remove the first clump, and we're going to go ahead and remove the second clump, and if there are any little minor details you'd like to add with a pencil, then now's the time to do that. So, for me, I'm lookin...”
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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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