Illustrated Pattern Design
materials
A course by Ana Sanfelippo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: materials
Overview
“In this lesson I will teach you the materials I work with: brands, models, uses of each, etc.”
In this video lesson Ana Sanfelippo addresses the topic: materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Pattern Design. Learn to tell stories using your own hand-drawn patterns and print them on different surfaces.
Partial transcription of the video
“Materials In this lesson, I'll show you the materials we'll work with on the final project. Don't worry, they're easy to get and you'll find them in any country or place. In the first, sketching stage, I'll work with this Canson sketch pad. I like it because it has cream-colored paper and it's coarse, but not too much. It gives a good grip on the graphite of the pencil. The pencils I use for sketching are the HB and B, in general, it can change. If you want to use 2B... But the HB is harder and the B is softer. So, for my first ideas I work with the hardest pencil and then the soft one allo...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Pattern Design
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Gouache Painting, Pattern Design, Printing, Traditional illustration

Ana Sanfelippo
A course by Ana Sanfelippo
Ana Sanfelippo is an Argentine illustrator and graphic designer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires. She went from being a student to a teacher there, where she spent 14 years teaching illustration and typography.
Ana specializes in children's illustration, her main products being books and pattern designs. She collaborates with brands for whom the illustration is applied to the product as the main protagonist, such as Birchbox, La Maraña, Amazónica, and Papelirea.
She started more than ten years ago in the professional field of editorial illustration, where she first started working with patterns to create book covers. Since then, pattern design has become the place of perfect harmony between her two passions: illustration and design.
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