Exploratory Sketchbook: Find Your Drawing Style
Color, Contrast and Balance
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: Color, Contrast and Balance
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show how to mix colors and make a color wheel. I’ll give examples from picture books showing how colors create atmosphere in an illustration. We will also create color pallets from a reference and from our imagination.”
In this video lesson Sarah van Dongen addresses the topic: Color, Contrast and Balance, 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
“Color, Contrast and Balance In this lesson I will show you how to mix colors and how to create a color wheel. I'll also show examples from picture books where color has been used to create a specific atmosphere. We will try to recreate the color palette from a specific illustration and we will create our own color palette from imagination. Let's start by creating a color wheel. It's ok if you've done this before, it's always good to practice mixing colors and also different kinds of paint mix a bit differently. It's ok if you've already done this a hundred times. Do it one more time. I like...”
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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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- Level: Beginner
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