Exploratory Sketchbook: Find Your Drawing Style
My Materials
A course by Sarah van Dongen , Illustrator
Joined March 2020
Discover fun methods to develop your ideas and draw from observation using gouache, watercolor, and colored pencils
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About the video: My Materials
Overview
“In this lesson I’ll show the different materials that I use. I will talk about the paint, brushes, colored pencils and markers and crayons that I have with me. I will also give some tips when it comes to buying these materials.”
In this video lesson Sarah van Dongen addresses the topic: My Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Exploratory Sketchbook: Find Your Drawing Style. Discover fun methods to develop your ideas and draw from observation using gouache, watercolor, and colored pencils.
Partial transcription of the video
“My Materials In this lesson I'll talk about the materials I like to use, I will show you the paints, the colored pencils, the markers, and the crayons that I like to use in my illustrations and I will also give you some tips for when you go out to buy your own materials. This is the mechanical pencil I like to use. It's by Faber-Castell, it's quite thin, it's 0.5 millimeters. The brand is not very important. What I think is more important is the lead that you put in there, I think this one is quite soft, but that's very personal. This is the Mono Zero Eraser by Tombow, I like it because you...”
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Course summary for: Exploratory Sketchbook: Find Your Drawing Style
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Gouache Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
A course by Sarah van Dongen
Sarah van Dongen is a Dutch illustrator based in Amsterdam who is passionate about telling stories. She began her studies in comparative literature but enrolled in the MA in Children’s Books Illustration in Cambridge, UK after realizing she wanted to pursue a more creative career.
Sarah’s illustration work can be found in children’s books, stationery, newspapers, and magazines across the globe. Her clients include Flow Magazine, Adobe, Tiny Owl Publishing, and Ragged Bears Publishing, among others. Sarah enjoys exploring themes like gardens, food, social interactions, mental health, and her childhood. She doesn’t shy away from subjects like insecurity, loneliness, and loss, she expresses them in her sketches to help make these feelings more comprehensible.
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