Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook

Overview

“The graphite pencil will help us make the first form, the most basic and fast, but we can also make sketches with only pencil and leave it as a precise drawing without the need to include color.”

In this video lesson Paulina Maciel · Canela addresses the topic: Graphite Exercises, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook. Explore and interpret the natural world by combining watercolor with graphite pencil and fineliners.

Partial transcription of the video

“Unit 3 Exercises with graphite pencil In this unit we will start doing some basic exercises with the tools that we will use, to discover the possibilities and peculiarities of each one of them. We'll start with graphite pencil. With the graphite pencil we will create the most basic shape. Generally, the sketch. After this we can add details with the nib or even watercolor, but a well-worked graphite version in which we add volume and details can also be a completely finished drawing that we can use for our journal. Working directly on the blank paper can be intimidating, that's why we will ...”

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Course summary for: Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook

• Level: Beginner
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• 26885 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 52m)
• 16 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting