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Block Printing for Illustration

Offered By: Domestika

Tags

Visual Arts Courses Sketching Courses Block Printing Courses

Course Description

Overview

Carve patterns, shapes, and designs into blocks to create unique stamps for printing
  • Introduction
  • Getting Ready: Tools, Ink and Paper
  • Starting on Your Project: Getting Inspired, Sketching and Carving
  • Maintenance
  • Final project
Illustrations have the power to bring smiles to people’s faces and change their day in an instant. Wies van der Velde, the illustrator and artist behind SowiesoWies, specializes in creating playful artwork using the block printing technique. She sells her work on Esty and shares it with over 150K followers on Instagram.

In this course, she teaches you how to work with the block printing technique to create your own illustrations. Carve patterns, shapes, and designs into a block and print them onto paper to make unique, multi-layered images. Get your tools ready and start stamping your own story.


Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • Materials
  • Handling the Tools
  • Working with Ink Pads
  • Inspiration and First Sketch
  • Carving and Printing the Main Character
  • Rest of the Characters
  • Final Touches
  • Storing and Cleaning Your Tools
  • Other Uses for Your Print
  • Block Printing for Illustration

Taught by

SowiesoWies

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