Negative Watercolor Painting for Children's Illustration

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Course overview

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

Watercolor is a beautiful art form that easily lends itself to rich combinations of tones, textures, and styles thanks to its wide range of techniques. One such technique is negative painting, which allows you to express your ideas and put them at the forefront of your illustrations by playing with negative space. Join Carolina Alarcón, children's illustrator and expert in this technique, and fill in the blank spaces to bring a one-of-a-kind illustration project to life.

In this course, learn the ins and outs of the negative painting technique by creating a composition with watercolor. Put your creativity to work from the first sketch to the finishing touches to create personal projects for your portfolio and social media. And if you want to delve into the creation of illustrations of characters and settings from scratch, discover their first course Illustration techniques with watercolor and gouache.

Description

Expand your watercolor techniques to add depth and a touch of magic to your illustrations

As an introduction to the course, Carolina Alarcón invites you into her colorful world and shares her main influences and sources of inspiration as well as her most distinguished projects as an illustrator of children's literature.

Begin with the basics and discover what negative watercolor painting is, what materials and tools are involved, and what each can be used for. Further explore this technique by practicing with a series of exercises and start shaping the idea for your project.

Carolina then walks you through her creative process and gives you some tips to help you brainstorm ideas and find the definitive image to paint using the negative watercolor technique.

To tie everything together, compile all the videos and images you took of your piece during the illustration process and transform them into posts for social media.

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