Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art

Overview

“One way of working and combining methods is doing a complete graphite drawing and adding color digitally. In this lesson, I’ll show you how to create a finished graphite piece to add digital color. Then I’ll show how I take that file into Procreate on the iPad Pro and add color and manage layers. This gives you a lot of room to play with color combinations and textures in a digital, non-destructive way. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Graphite and Digital Color , which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art. Explore sketchbook techniques for creating characters, settings, and narratives in children's book illustrations.

Partial transcription of the video

“Graphite and Digital Color We experimented with layering materials and using cut paper and in this lesson, I'll talk about graphite and digital color. A way I like to work because of how easy it is to make changes is doing a graphite version of the sketch, a finished, black and white graphite version, then scanning that and adding color digitally. I have the same sketch from before of Bou and Pip, the puffin, on his head, so I'll make a finished drawing with texture using graphite. I have an HB Blackwing pencil. I have this darker 2B pencil for darker tones. This pencil is similar to the Bl...”

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Course summary for: Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art

• Level: Beginner
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• 534 students
• 7 units
• 98 lessons (18h 23m)
• 46 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Gouache Painting, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration