Surrealist Illustration Inspired by Nature

Use colored pencils to illustrate animals and natural elements with mood and symbolism

• Introduction
• Preparation (Materials and Concepts)
• Stretching
• Coloring with Little Windows
• Final project

The animal kingdom has always been a potent source of inspiration for artists, with surprisingly accurate metaphors of human emotions found in each animal’s characteristics. Artist and illustrator Marco Mazzoni is fascinated by flora and fauna. His work is filled with depictions of human emotions inspired by nature, and in this course, he invites you to try his own methods to create surreal illustrations of animals.

Forget the structure of academic drawing and the use of visual references. Instead, discover fun techniques to refine the message behind your animal illustrations. This is Marco Mazzoni’s second course. In his first course, he teaches how to use Chiaroscuro with pencils to achieve striking color use and contrasts in your pencil portraits.

• Introduction
• Influences
• What Will We Do in This Course?
• Materials
• Shading and Color Techniques
• The Symbolic Meaning of Animals
• Sketching
• What Is Drawing Through the Window?
• Draw Without Looking
• Shape Shifter
• Create the Palette
• Let’s Do the Lines
• Starting to Color Our Animal
• Color the Rest of Our Animal
• Finishing Touches
• Surrealist Illustration Inspired by Nature