Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art

Overview

“Everything you’ve done previously has led you to this point: illustrating the final piece(s). Choose materials that excited you, liked, and scared you (your choice!), and create that ultimate piece! Refer to your notes from the experimentation phase. Keep composition and balance in mind as well. Do three versions of the same piece, trying a different method each time. How do the mood and style differ in the end? How do you feel about each one? ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Illustrating Your Final Piece and Incorporating Experimental Elements, 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

“Illustrating Your Final Piece And Incorporating Experimental Elements We're done sketching for our final project. In this lesson, we'll use the experimental techniques we learned to finish the illustration. I took the more refined sketch that I finished, put it on a light box with my watercolor paper on top, and lightly transferred that with a blue pencil, so I can see the sketch underneath and it can guide my painting. I'm using the edges of this paper as my palette as it won't matter. I'd cut those off or crop in after I scan. I'm trying to work quickly because I want to blend some darker...”

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 930 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