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Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail

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Overview

Create artwork filled with intricate ideas while maintaining balance and harmony
  • Introduction
  • Getting Ready
  • Planning, Sketching and Inking
  • Finalizing Your Piece
  • Final project
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.

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • What Will We Do On the Course?
  • Presentation of Materials
  • Choosing the Space
  • Choosing the Theme
  • References
  • Planning Out the Composition and Perspective
  • Preliminary Sketching of Details
  • Large Pencil Sketch 1
  • Large Pencil Sketch 2
  • Inking 1
  • Inking 2
  • Inking 3
  • Wash for Shading
  • Colour 1
  • Colour 2
  • Scanning
  • Final Details
  • Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail

Taught by

Mattias Adolfsson

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