Cover Art Illustration with Pencil, Ink, and Digital Painting

Combine pencil and ink drawings with digital painting and image processing to illustrate captivating cover art

• Introduction
• The First Steps
• The Analogue Illustration
• Digital Production
• The Last Touches
• Final project

Embracing imperfections can open up a whole new world of creative possibilities. That’s the philosophy of illustrator and art director Robert Sammelin, a self-professed comic book superfan who has collaborated with the likes of Nike, The New York Times, Waxwork Records, and WIRED.

In this online course, Robert teaches you how to combine the controlled chaos of analog drawing with the limitless world of digital painting to illustrate a striking piece of cover art. Explore pencil and ink techniques, experiment with textures, and refine your image with post-processing in Photoshop. Bring old and new worlds together to take your drawings to the next level!

• About Me
• Influences
• Inspiration and References
• The Digital Sketch and Composition
• Colour Planning 1
• Colour Planning 2
• Pencilling the Drawing
• Inking with a Brush and Nib
• Ink Washes
• Making Custom Textures and Scanning
• Preparing the Scanned Image
• Digital Colouring: The Characters and Main Elements 1
• Digital Colouring: The Characters and Main Elements 2
• Digital Colouring: The Final Details
• Touching up the Illustration
• Post-processing 1
• Post-processing 2
• Cover Art Illustration with Pencil, Ink, and Digital Painting