Travel Sketchbook Illustration with Gouache
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Explore the versatility of gouache to capture vivid landscapes and scenes from your travels in a sketchbook
Taking photos is a great way to remember a trip, but with a travel sketchbook, you can recreate those magical moments through your personal lens. Jessica Smith is a professional artist and illustrator who loves to keep a visual record of the places she visits, and gouache is her medium of choice. The bright and playful style she developed through sketchbooking has led her to collaborate with clients like Kate Spade, Adobe, Tombow, and Simon and Schuster.
In this online course, learn how to capture your favorite destinations using gouache. Explore color, composition, and painting techniques to recreate vibrant scenes from your travels. Swap your camera for a brush and create memories on paper.
Meet Jessica Smith, artist, illustrator, and your teacher for the course. Discover how she turned her childhood love of drawing into a career and explore the influences that have shaped her style.
Next, Jessica shows you a few of her personal sketchbooks along with the materials you need to create your own. She also discusses the importance of reference images before teaching you about color theory and how to use her favorite medium: gouache.
After practicing these concepts with a couple of still lifes, move on to the main composition. Start by planning out the back-, mid-, and foreground of your image and draw the underlying shapes. Then choose a color palette, paint the base layers, and gradually fill in all the details. Finish up by adding shadows to give it depth.
Finally, learn how to scan your illustration and touch it up in Photoshop. Jessica also shows you some creative ways to photograph your sketchbook for sharing online.
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