Illustration of Adorable Characters Inspired by Nature
From Sketch to Lineart
A course by Johanna Forster , Illustrator
About the video: From Sketch to Lineart
Overview
“I always enjoy the drafting phase! First, the best sketches are drawn with clean lines or contours. ”
In this video lesson Johanna Forster addresses the topic: From Sketch to Lineart, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration of Adorable Characters Inspired by Nature. Design lovable digital characters inspired by nature and use them in a variety of decorative compositions.
Partial transcription of the video
“From sketch to lineart The design phase of our project is done. Now it's time to develop our best ideas. Since I really like working with outlines, is the first step to draw clean outlines over my sketch. So I duplicated the file again. Such a backup copy is never wrong. I already have a paper texture as a background. Duplicate everything I've drawn so far. And turn the opacity way down. And above that a new level. Now I take a nice ink pen in Procreate. I really like using Tinderbox here. I'll start drawing clean lines across the characters now. As I work out, I consider where the light wo...”
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Course summary for: Illustration of Adorable Characters Inspired by Nature
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing

Johanna Forster
A course by Johanna Forster
Johanna Forster is a freelance illustrator from Saarbrücken, in the southwest of Germany, best known for her cute fruit and vegetable characters. Johanna first studied Fine Art, but quickly switched to the Media Art and Design course, as she was attracted by the variety of Concept Art courses.
A big fan of video games, she also illustrates concepts and has developed several of them, as well as board games. In fact, Nordlicht, the point and click videogame she developed during her studies, even won an award. She has also worked until 2022 as an illustrator at the studio Chasing Carrots. She is currently freelancing with her online shop, where she sells prints, cards, originals, stickers, magnets and many other items inspired by fruit and vegetables.
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