Artistic Illustration: From Drawing to Digital

Experiment with illustration by creating artwork with charcoal and gouache paint then digitizing it on Photoshop to create striking images

• Introduction
• Using Materials Creatively
• Making the Illustration
• Adding Colour and Finishing Touches
• Final project

Experimentation in illustration is a journey to discovery. Painter and graphic designer Paul Scherübel brings together two worlds in his experimental art. Starting with traditional charcoal drawing combined with vivid gouache paint, he then transforms his work digitally in Photoshop.

Learn how to explore your creativity and make illustrations that both communicate and fascinate. Stir your viewer’s imagination by creating intriguing mixed media artwork of your own design.

• About Me
• Influences
• The Materials
• Using Charcoal in a Painterly Manner
• Gouache on Toned Paper
• Generating Creative Ideas
• Colour and Composition
• The Initial Sketch
• The Final Drawing
• Execution in Charcoal
• Gouache and Pasting 1
• Gouache and Pasting 2
• Scanning
• Value Corrections and Colour
• Saving Your Image
• Two Versions of an Image
• Artistic Illustration: From Drawing to Digital