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Visual Language with Analogue & Digital Illustration Techniques

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Overview

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Find your own personal visual language and experiment with analogue and digital illustration techniques.
  • Introduction
  • Tools and Inspiration
  • The Illustration
  • How to Boost Creativity and Work in Illustration
  • Final project
In this online course with Lucy Sherston, an acclaimed artist and illustrator, you'll dive into the fascinating world of creating art that blurs the line between abstract and figurative. Lucy's artistic journey moves seamlessly between the physical and the virtual, allowing her ideas to flow from sketchbook to screen and back to tangible pieces of art. She'll teach you her unique method of unleashing your creativity through free pencil sketches, which you'll then transform into captivating digital collages.

Throughout the course, you'll embark on a creative adventure, learning to produce meaningful mind maps, gather photo inspiration, and explore both observational and imaginative sketching techniques. With the help of Photoshop, you'll scan, manipulate, and refine your drawings, playing with colors, textures, and layouts to create stunning visual compositions. As the final project, you'll illustrate an A4 poster inspired by your personal memories, putting your newfound skills into practice.

In this inspiring course, you'll gain valuable insights into Lucy Sherston's artistic process, blending digital and analog techniques to let your creative energy flow into each medium. Join this online creative journey to unleash your potential and bring your artistic vision to life.

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • Analogue and Digital Tools
  • Mind Mapping and Photos
  • Sketchbooking from Reference
  • Sketchbooking from Imagination
  • Selecting and Scanning In Drawings
  • Playing with the Layout
  • Creating Textures and Adding to the Layout 1
  • Creating Textures and Adding to the Layout 2
  • Colouring Digitally 1
  • Colouring Digitally 2
  • Saving and Exporting
  • Nurturing Your Practice: Morning Pages
  • Applications: Ways to Use the Illustration
  • Exploring your own Visual Language

Taught by

Lucy Sherston

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