Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook

Overview

“Grisalla technique gives me a feeling of creating an old illustration, the final color is off and this gives it its own charm. With this technique we will solve the illustration in a very short time, it is also a good initial way to understand the shape and volume of our model.”

In this video lesson Paulina Maciel · Canela addresses the topic: Illustration of a leaf, 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 4 Illustration of a leaf In this lesson we are going to draw a leaf in our diary with the grisaille technique plus watercolor. The grisaille consists in defining the volume and texture of the leaf with pencil, to finally add a layer of watercolor, that will only give us color information, it will not define volume or textures. If you can get a leaf attached to the branch, it will be a great advantage, because we'll have more information about our object in nature. We can find leaves at different stages of maturity on the same branch. We can find the fruit, we can study the stem, and ev...”

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Course summary for: Botanical Watercolor Sketchbook

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (1081)
• 26886 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 52m)
• 16 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting