Ink illustration specialization: Techniques for creative expression

Overview

“Now that you’re warmed up, we’ll be diving in head first to our drawing. In this lesson I’ll be talking about how confidence plays a large factor in my work. By solidifying your sketched ideas in ink before moving onto the next area of your page, you’re often left with accidental marks and need to find a way to make them “work” or embrace them.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Laying Down the First Marks, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ink illustration specialization: Techniques for creative expression. Create illustrations of evocative nature using the feather and immersion ink, focusing on traditional entering techniques and observation drawing.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Laying Down the First Marks Now, I'll start laying down the first marks of my final artwork. I'll start over here in the top left corner. I've gathered references that I've liked and I've created my digital collage. The final step is to start drawing it. The drawing doesn't have to look just like the digital collage. It should look however you are feeling in this moment. At this stage, I'm pretty happy with where I'm at. Thankfully, I work in pencil for a section and then I switch to ink, and then I go back to pencil. It's good that I pencil things in first because I realized I made some ...”

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Course summary for: Ink illustration specialization: Techniques for creative expression

• Level: Beginner
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• 247 students
• 7 units
• 85 lessons (16h 18m)
• 32 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration