About the video: Details on Insects and Finishing
Overview
“In this lesson, you'll learn to add detail to your branch, buds and then finally to your insect, using your smallest brushes.”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Details on Insects and Finishing, 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, we're going to focus on adding final details to your beds. The stem. And finally, our mouth. I'm beginning this lesson with the clean palettes, clean water and fresh colors. We're going to start by adding tiny hairs to our magnolia buds. To do this, we're going to mix white and an olive watercolour I'm going to be using my smallest brush for this, which is a quadruple zero. You need to use a bit of a, flicking movement. for the hairs. And the same for this one. And then again using the same movement, but this is a finer hand on this part of the flower. I'm just going to work...”
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Course summary for: Specialization in Botanical and Naturalistic Illustration Techniques
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Category
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Areas
Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

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