Exploratory Sketchbook: Find Your Drawing Style
Use of 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: Use of Materials
Overview
“I will show how I use the different material we will use during this course, as well as different ways to hold and use (colored) pencils, how to mix paint and add water and how I use markers and crayons for details.”
In this video lesson Sarah van Dongen addresses the topic: Use of 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
“Use of Materials In this lesson I will show you how to use the materials we will use during the course. I'll show you how to mix the paints, how to use and hold the colored pencils and how to use markers and crayons for details. Let's start with the paints. I've put the paints in a paintbox, which is over here, and it's arranged in a way I like it, so it's very personal and I advise you to try out different things. In this corner I've put all the blues that I use and over here and here I add yellow to make green. Over here are two types of red that I don't use a lot. They're a little bit pu...”
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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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