Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
Wash for Shading
A course by user1836389 surname1836389 , Illustrator
Joined December 2019
Create artwork filled with intricate ideas while maintaining balance and harmony
Joined December 2019
About the video: Wash for Shading
Overview
“In this lesson, you will do a shadow pass using diluted ink or a marker. This is a great way of bringing forward volume to an illustration. ”
In this video lesson user1836389 surname1836389 addresses the topic: Wash for Shading, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail. Create artwork filled with intricate ideas while maintaining balance and harmony.
Partial transcription of the video
“Wash for shading In this lesson we'll apply shading to the drawing to get forward more depth and shadow to it. At this stage when I've removed all the pencil lines and I'm happy with the inking, I always make a scan to have both of a safety net if something goes wrong with shading or color, and also you don't know what might happen in the future, you might get asked to do a coloring book, for example, and that's great to have as good a scan as possible of this black and white piece. I have made a solution of about two parts water and one part of gray ink. You can use watercolor in this stag...”
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Course summary for: Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
A course by user1836389 surname1836389
Mattias Adolfsson has been working as a freelance illustrator for over eleven years. While working as a graphic designer in the computer games industry, he started sharing his work on social media, where he began his successful career in illustration.
His long list of clients includes Nickelodeon, Disney, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers, and other important animation studios. He has also illustrated for magazines including The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times.
Mattias has created a variety of illustration work in areas like product design, for baby clothes brand Atelier Choux Paris, record sleeves, as well as an art commission for the largest hospital in Sweden.
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