Flavorful Food Illustration with Watercolor

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Course overview

Provider
Domestika
Course type
Paid course
Level
Beginner
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
2 hours
Lessons
13 lessons
Certificate
Available on completion
Course author
Enya Todd

Food is such an integral part of our lives and our culture. We eat to celebrate important moments, discover new things, bring ourselves comfort, and evoke familiar memories. Watercolor is perfect for food illustration and is the medium illustrator Enya Todd uses to create everything from editorial work for publications to packaging designs. She has worked for clients like British Airways and shares her work with over 45K followers on Instagram.

In this course, Enya teaches you a variety of techniques for illustrating food in watercolor. Create your own painting of your favorite sweet treat from start to finish, and discover how to make people’s mouths water with delicious food illustrations.

Description

Create evocative illustrations of your favorite foods using a variety of watercolor techniques and learn to edit them in Photoshop

Get to know illustrator Enya Todd. She talks through the creative journey that led from her studying graphic design to creating watercolor illustrations for clients around the world. Discover the influences that inspire the work she creates, along with what you can expect from the course.

Familiarize yourself with the tools needed to make watercolor illustrations, from brushes and paints to different types of paper. Then learn how to interpret textures in food to create a sensory experience that balances realism with artistic flair.

Discover where to find reference images for your work and combine them to sketch an original composition. Trace your sketch onto watercolor paper before creating your color palette. Enya shares the paints she uses and how she mixes them for different types of food before guiding you through the entire painting process from start to finish.

Photograph your work and import it into Photoshop. Then edit things like color and contrast for a professional end result. To finish the course Enya shares her advice for building an online presence on social media and finding work as an artist.

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