Watercolor Illustration: Developing a Wedding Brand Suite

Enter the world of watercolor! Join Brooklyn illustrator Carolyn Wiedeman to develop a suite of beautifully illustrated assets for a floral-inspired wedding — and learn new watercolor techniques, tricks, and styles along the way.

This visually rich class follows the start-to-finish process of illustrating custom items for a special event suite: the coordinated set of paper items including save-the-dates, invitations, and more. The secret? These many items are built from just a few watercolor illustrations, which are brought into Photoshop and rearranged to fit a range of purposes.

Key lessons include:

• Illustration: The role of style in illustration
• Watercolor: Gouache vs. watercolor
• Sketching & Branding: Achieving compositional balance
• Digitizing: Digitizing hand-painted work while retaining textural detail
• Typography: Tricks for typography and font choice
• Printing: Rules for working with printers

Plus, the class includes an exclusive Photoshop artboard, downloadable for your own use.

This class is perfect for illustrators, artists, designers, watercolor enthusiasts, and everyone who loves the thrill and excitement of getting creative for special events. If you've ever wondered how to transform hand-painted work into special hardcopy prints, you'll love this stunning, useful guide to the world of watercolor wedding botanicals.

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Recommended: Basic familiarity with Photoshop is recommended for this class. New to Adobe? Check out Meg Lewis's Basics of Photoshop: Fundamentals for Beginners.

• Introduction
• Project Brief
• Inspiration
• Paints & Tools
• Asset No. 1: Hero Image
• Assets No. 2 & 3: Monogram & Crest
• Asset No. 4: Pattern Border
• Digitizing for Photoshop
• Layout, Composition, Branding
• Typography & Printing
• Closing
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