Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
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Course overview
- Provider
- Domestika
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Lessons
- 19 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Mattias Adolfsson
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Would you like to learn how to merge all your sketch ideas into a single scene with a balanced and intriguing composition? Discover Mattias Adolfsson’s method for creating scenes that invite the viewer to observe its intricate details up close.
Renowned for his playful characters and humorous, detailed artwork, Mattias creates illustrations for magazines like The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times, as well as animation studios like Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, and Disney.
In this course, he shows you how to master composition techniques and organize your sketches and ideas into one detailed figurative piece. If you would like to learn how to get started with your first sketches and ideas, Mattias gives you all the tools you need to become an avid sketcher in his first course: The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art.
Description
Meet Mattias, discover how he uses his childhood memories to develop creative ideas, and see some of his recent work. Learn how he uses art history as inspiration for his illustrations and find out what is covered in this course.
Start by testing out your material and carrying out some research to find a space you would like to illustrate. Then develop the story behind your piece by writing down a list of things you want to include in your artwork. Create a mood board to use as a reference when illustrating.
Draw small thumbnail-sized sketches to plan out your composition and do a full-sized detailed pencil drawing of the result. Ink your pencil lines and apply a wash for shading before adding color to complete your final piece.
Once you’re happy with the result, learn how to scan your illustration. Then see how Mattias uses Photoshop to stitch parts of your drawing together before making the final edits to your illustration.
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