Specialization in Botanical and Naturalistic Illustration Techniques

Overview

“In this lesson you will learn about my sketching gear, including black fineliner, a tiny watercolor travel set (when I am painting outdoor) and a bigger watercolor set (while painting at my studio), two waterbrushes, colour pencils, colour fineliners, a sketchbook or some hot pressed 100 % cotton paper. You need very few materials to create, it’s all about observation and practice. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: The Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Botanical and Naturalistic Illustration Techniques. Develop botanical illustration skills with watercolor, gouache, and ink techniques, blending realism and artistic expression.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I will talk about the material I'm using for botanical illustration. It gets a lot to do with the material I'm using as an urban sketcher. For those of you who already did my course of urban sketching, to me, the main tool is my fineliner. The linework is more important. We use a very bold one for the geometrical description. Now, forget about it. You will not need it anymore. Go for a thinner one. 0.2 is to me, perfect 18A4 scale size. Or DIN A5, but if you want to draw bigger, to work bigger, use a 0.5 for some large scale. I also have here a pencil. It's not also somethin...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Botanical and Naturalistic Illustration Techniques

• Level: Beginner
• 104 students
• 7 units
• 115 lessons (1d 1h 25m)
• 38 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting