Intro To Design And Composition For Watercolour Illustration

Paint a travel flatlay to record your adventure and strengthen your design and composition skills

What you'll learn

Brainstorming and refining icons.

Flatlay composition for balance and interest.

Creating an on-trend colour scheme that is still unique to your style and aesthetic.

Painting - Working in layers and then fitting the pieces of the puzzle.

Requirements

Pencil & eraser

Plenty of plain printer/copy paper

Ruler

To colour your illustration, use whatever you have available. I'll be working with watercolours, but you can use pencils, inks, copic markers, textas or digital tools like procreate.

I use a combination of tube, pan, and liquid watercolours, canson watercolour paper, round brushes; size 0, 1 & 6.

Description

Get inspired by your favourite holiday memories or daydream about the next adventure. Where do you dream of going? What will you bring? OR What holiday do you want to commemorate? Surfing in Morocco… Art retreat in Tuscany… Food and cooking tour of Vietnam… Photography expedition through India… Hiking in Yosemite National Park… we are going to let our art take us there!Flatlays are a great exercise in composition and balance. We will cover the main concepts of good design and apply them to the course project. These include colour, contrast, rhythm, repetition, and negative space.Illustrating a range of related icons is a great addition to your portfolio.The course project can be framed or used as a greeting card, or even be included in a holiday photo album.This course is a concise and jam-packed 40 minutes that you'll want to rewatch as you work through your own composition. You will learn:Selecting colour to convey moodA number of strategies that you can use to develop your colour schemes.How to brainstorm and refine selected icons.Flatlay composition for balance and interest.Creating an on-trend colour scheme that is still unique to your style and aesthetic.Painting - Working in layers and then fitting the pieces of the puzzle.Some project ideas to get you started:CampingYoga retreatHikingBikingPool sideCreative escapeFood safari!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Your project brief

Lecture 3 Materials

Section 2: Planning, Composition and Colour theme

Lecture 4 Planning and Brainstorming

Lecture 5 Composition theory and tips

Lecture 6 Colourschemes to avoid overwhelm

Lecture 7 Project colour story & Paint alchemy

Lecture 8 Painting the project

Intermediate painters wanting to improve their art composition