Experimental Watercolor Techniques for Beginners
Influences
A course by Ana Santos , Painter and illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Here I tell you what my influences were. Like many, I have been drawing since I was a child, so I wanted to dig into the earliest and most intimate influences that I remember and that impelled me to draw. ”
In this video lesson Ana Santos addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Watercolor Techniques for Beginners. Learn how to paint with watercolor from scratch and make the most out of your mistakes.
Partial transcription of the video
“INFLUENCES Now that I've talked about me, in this lesson I'll tell you what my earlier influences were. Let's start. As I said earlier, I'll show you some of my earlier influences. I'll start with my mother's drawings. She still draws and paints today, but I want to show you the first that influenced me. She did these drawings before I was born. In the 70s and 80s. I loved taking this folder and looking through it. I'll start with this. This one is done with a felt-tip pen and ball point pen. With a very scrawly stroke. Very vigorous. The discontinuous line. It wasn't a continuous line and ...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Watercolor Techniques for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Ana Santos
A course by Ana Santos
Drawing has been Ana's passion since she was a child, so she didn't think twice about enrolling in a fine arts school where she specialized in drawing and graphic design. She has always been fascinated by the human figure, which often appears in one form or another in her personal projects.
Ana combines traditional and digital techniques and is an expert at capturing expressive looks, strong attitudes, and somber moods in her illustrations, which have appeared in publications from major publishers such as Penguin Random House, Editorial Planeta, and Roca Editorial.
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