Playful Illustration with Watercolor & Colored Pencils
Trying Different Textures and Patterns 1
A course by Daria Solak , Illustrator
Joined September 2020
About the video: Trying Different Textures and Patterns 1
Overview
“I believe that a portrait that stands out is built from interesting textures and patterns. I don't know how about you, but I'm too lazy to invent everything from zero. The world is already full of them; look around! Let's find them around us and translate them into illustration language. ”
In this video lesson Daria Solak addresses the topic: Trying Different Textures and Patterns 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Playful Illustration with Watercolor & Colored Pencils. Explore patterns, textures, colors, and composition to create meaningful portraits filled with personality.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to create patterns and textures using watercolors and coloring pencils. We have to start from inspirations for those patterns. I believe artwork is everywhere in the world, in the buildings, fashion, on the street, you have to just look around. That's why I love to take pictures of the inspiring things I see around me. Whether if it's interesting dress I see in the Windows Shop. Or if it's a building I'm passing by, I like to take pictures and keep them for later to practice my drawing and patterns on them. I believe nature is also amazing inspirati...”
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Course summary for: Playful Illustration with Watercolor & Colored Pencils
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Colored Pencil Drawing, Painting, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Daria Solak
A course by Daria Solak
Daria Solak is a London-based illustrator from Poland. After completing a degree in graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and in Bologna, she began working as a freelance illustrator, using mainly traditional mediums like watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil. Heavily influenced by the ‘90s aesthetics of her childhood, she plays with vivid colors and textures to capture the world around her.
Daria has illustrated children’s books like Little Women, Little People, Big Dreams: Dolly Parton, and Big Wide Words in the Neighbourhood. In addition to creating custom portraits for countless families, she has also collaborated with brands such as CASETiFY, Anthropologie, Hallmark, and the Keith Haring Foundation.
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