My project in Exploratory Sketchbook: Find Your Drawing Style course
by Jaime Conejos @jaimeconejos
- 346
- 13
- 3
This is my final project.
I have really enjoyed the course. I consider Sarah to be extremely talented, and it is a great opportunity to learn from her.
For those of you who are not enrolled in the course, and are watching this final project, I will briefly tell you what the course has consisted of:
1) As in all Domestika courses, Sarah has told us about her work and her influences.
2) The objective of the course is to make a drawing in the sketchbook, trying to represent an everyday scene that represents us, and in which we appear drawn as a portrait.
3) Initially, we make a color wheel, and a color palette, to familiarize ourselves with the materials that we are going to use. Sarah mainly uses gouache and colored pencils.
4) Afterwards, we think about the scene we want to represent, and we make a pencil sketch.
5) Starting from the sketch, we draw the FIRST LAYER with gouache, filling the large surfaces with flat colors, not paying attention to the details.
6) Later, in the SECOND LAYER, is where we begin to use colored pencils and other materials to define the details, add objects, correct errors, and in general, to give the drawing personality, until we get the finished work.
I recommend everyone to take this course. It is seemingly simple, but it is very inspiring. I was very used to working with only one material at a time (watercolors, gouache, etc.), and the main teaching in this course is that you do not have to set yourself limits, that you can work AT THE SAME TIME with gouache, watercolors, pencils colors, markers, acrylics... Anything goes as long as the result is harmonious. Now I understand why Sarah's drawings are so cool.
I hope you liked my final project. If you want to see more of my illustrations, you can take a look at my Instagram profile. Have a nice day!
3 comments
sarahvandongenillustration
Teacher PlusHi Jaime,
I'm very happy you liked the course. Your final project looks great! I can see that you had fun making it. It's a very happy colorful image and I like that the white table balances out all the colors. And also that you left the curtains white, so cool! (I often forget that I want to leave something white and then I accidentally paint over it in my haste to cover the whole page in paint.)
I would like to give some tips/questions if you don't mind (note that you already did an amazing job, this is just the perfectionist in me). Why do the table, chairs and little table by the window have the same kind of legs? Is it a set? Or is this the way you like to draw legs? Also the backs of the chairs on the right side of the table connect to the table surface, this is a bit confusing. If I were you I would make the backs of the chairs bigger/higher than the table surface. Note that these are just tiny things. I really love your image, all the details and textures. The longer I look at it the more things I discover.
jaimeconejos
Hi @sarahvandongenillustration
I am very happy that you liked my drawing. As you say, I have really enjoyed doing it. It is the first time that I have used colored pencils on gouache, I had never dared to mix materials, and I have felt it as a kind of liberation. I think next time I'll try pencils on watercolor.
Answering your questions, I must start by telling you that my style of drawing originally did not look anything like this drawing. I have always been very realistic, very perfectionist (a different thing is that I succeeded). I studied technical drawing for several years, for me perspective was a completely assumed concept, and I worked with it in an extremely technical way. And do you know what? I hated it. And I greatly admired people who did not follow the laws of perspective, but invented new perspectives, or directly eliminated it from their drawings, as children do. The perspective that you use also catches my attention, I love it. Or the perspective of María Luque, the Argentine illustrator I told you about days ago.
The problem is that ignoring the realistic perspective is very difficult for me, but I really enjoy trying it. In this drawing, NOTHING has a coherent perspective, not the table, not the chairs, not the floor, not the buildings in the background, not the objects on the table. And I love it that way, but I'm still feeling unsure about it!!! And of course there are things that, as you say, could improve, such as increasing the length of the chairs, so that confusing angles are not generated with the table. The positions of the chairs are not logical... they could be wings being born from the table. But it's ok, I'll keep on trying.
Oh, and regarding the legs of the chairs and tables... ha ha ha! No, it's not a set... I just borrowed them from the legs of your tables (LOL).
By the way, I just booked your book on Amazon, I am looking forward to reading it, it looks very good.
A hug.
sarahvandongenillustration
Teacher Plus@jaimeconejos
I think it's really beneficial to actually know about how to draw perspective accurately, and then trying to let it go. The same way as I think it's good to know anatomy and being able to draw the human figure/portrait realistically before simplifying a character. It does take practice to let it go! But trust me, it's good that you know!
And about the chairs, if you meant for them to look like that, then it's fine. I think people should draw however and whatever they want, as long as they do it on purpose, do you know what I mean. I think that's the difference between having practiced for a long time and drawing something in a way because you like it that way and not having practiced enough yet and drawing something in a certain way because you don't know how to draw it differently.
I hope you like the book!
Cheers!
Log in or join for Free to comment