Sketching Techniques Specialization

Overview

“In this lesson, [bSarah Van Dongen[/b] will guide you through the importance of space in your illustrations. You will explore the basic rules of perspective and composition to create depth and structure in your work. Sarah will also teach you various techniques for portraying backgrounds, helping to improve the overall balance and narrative of your illustrations.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Perspective and Composition , which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketching Techniques Specialization. Explore the power of sketching alongside top-notch drawing masters..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I will talk about composition and show you the basic rules of perspective. Composition is about where everything is placed in your illustration, which is important. So you need to think about if you want to place an object or a person in the middle or on the side. I have a book here with some illustrations with example of composition. So one rule is don't put the main subject or object in the middle. For example, this is your illustration. Rules are there to be broken, but I often don't put the main thing in the middle. I put it on the side, for example, or maybe more here. ...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

Course summary for: Sketching Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (93)
• 8829 students
• 9 units
• 94 lessons (15h 44m)
• 51 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Artistic Drawing, Botanical Illustration, Character Design, Children's Illustration, Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting