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Discover 4 Tried And Tested Techniques For Enchanting Nature Sketches

teacher avatar Polina Jermolajeva, @Policorne | Illustrator & fine artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:40

    • 2.

      Getting Started

      0:30

    • 3.

      Painting from Online References

      2:20

    • 4.

      Drawing from Your Own Photos

      1:37

    • 5.

      Bringing Nature's Beauty Indoors

      2:00

    • 6.

      Mastering Sketches in the Open Air

      2:09

    • 7.

      Let's Wrap Up

      0:26

    • 8.

      Project

      0:30

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About This Class

If you are tired of staring at a blank sketchbook page, feeling art blocked, and afraid to start, this class is here to help. It's short, sweet, and perfect for anyone looking to get inspired.

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned artist, this course is designed to make sketching fun and accessible. You'll experiment with different techniques and tools, and bring your art to life with vibrant colors.

Polina is an expert in creating art from natural materials and finding inspiration in nature. She'll guide you through the process of creating 4 unique compositions inspired by the world around you.

In this class, you'll learn

  • 4 creative techniques to create nature-inspired drawings in your sketchbook
  • How to use your environment as a source of inspiration
  • Create new ideas for beautiful plant and landscape sketches
  • How to incorporate nature and plants in your artwork

No previous painting experience is necessary, but some art skills will definitely come in handy. To follow along with Polina, you'll need your favorite drawing tools. She mainly uses gouache, watercolor pencils, and markers.

(And remember, in our sketchbook adventures, there are no mistakes, just happy little art accidents! - Polina ♡)


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Polina Jermolajeva

@Policorne | Illustrator & fine artist

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Hi! I'm Polina.

I'm an eco-conscious illustrator and fine artist from Latvia with a background in fine arts and printmaking.

My area of interest is

creating paintings using gouache/oil paints, Plein-air works, making Oshibana (pressed flower art).

The source of my inspiration is the quiet nature around me and I am happy to teach you to find this beauty and transfer it to paper.

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1. Introduction: Hi, I'm pulling them alive. And then professional artists with a degree in graphics illustration, if you're staring at your blank sketchbook and not sure how to fill it with beautiful artwork. Well, you're in luck. In this course, I will show you my four favorite exercises, how it can fool your sketchbook, the beautiful pictures. You don't need any special tools or skills for this lesson. Just drawing your favorite style and get inspired by my examples. So let's get started and unleash your creativity. 2. Getting Started: First, let's study the sketch books. Have other artists and take notes of the techniques that they use. And you're already watching my video for this, which is great, but I will still leave a link to the Pinterest board and the description where I saved all the beautiful sketchbook examples that I found. This helped me to plan in advance of how I want it to fill out the sketchbook pages. And secondly, just relaxed, sweet build process of drying and living. It's okay if something doesn't work the way you want. 3. Painting from Online References: Well, let's get down to drying now. Starting from the simplest way and ending with the most interesting and exciting one, Let's start dying good photos. If you don't want to get dues name. And then the easiest way is to find pictures of beautiful nature places on Pinterest. Or you can look more interesting photos and the special website like stock snap. But I don't think that matters that much because you are using these photos for practice. I decided to choose this picture of nature and drives with the guar. I like to paint with gouache paints because they are relatively cheap and you can draw with colored pencils on top of paintings and decided to drive two pictures. And for this I filled one figure with the dark color and the other one, the light one. This is a very simple idea to start with, drawing the shape and fill it with color. Actually, these paints are well layered, although they are water soluble. And to be honest, I paint with the cheapest paints that can be found in the store. Actually, you don't have to paint the whole shape, but it's easier for me to start. And I also like that this color shadow peek through all the added layers and give the picture ionic. Don't. Then I just replicate that the reference I've found. By the way, the disadvantage of cheap paints is that they can have a very weak. So on a dark background, I had to paint over some areas, but the white to put a different shade on top of it. When domain drawing is ready, you can add some details with watercolor pencils 4. Drawing from Your Own Photos: The following is a drawing from your photo. Though they still have to go outside and take pictures of nature. Most likely you already have thousands of photos of nature on your phone. So you can use this URL stock for references. This will allow you to study the object. You are drunk with different angles and get a better feel for the place that you are drawing, especially if you've been there, It's better than just the random photo from the Internet, right? Plus this way you can save your memories from the drip in the form of drying, which is great. This time I decided to paint our the background of the drawing with the remaining gouache paint from the palette, which by the way is another advantage of these paints that you can reuse them very sustainable compared to acrylic paints. The most important thing is not to be afraid to use brighter colors because the pictures we take on the phone are usually not edited. So they may look bleak, but you don't have to repeat exactly what you see in the picture. I like to use a variety of different pictures, choose beautiful elements from them and put them together like a jigsaw puzzle for the entire spread of a sketchbook. 5. Bringing Nature's Beauty Indoors: This time let's bring nature to our place through our home. Let's take our foot outside of our house and see what we can find interesting here. Pick up interesting materials like twigs, leaves and other natural materials, probably with cool texture or shape and bring it home. Then I beautifully laid out the plants that have glycolipids on the table and took a photo just in case if anything moves, it shouldn't. But just in case. Now I can feel the spread of the sketchbook with all sorts of interesting plants. This time, I painted only with gouache. I drew the outline of the plants with a light colored pencil, and I tried to display the color and texture of each brand as realistically as possible. I like the fact that you can study these plants, rotate them in your hands to it can make a detailed drawing 6. Mastering Sketches in the Open Air: Now for the fun part, Let's go to Type and stay here a bit longer. Let's try to find what kind of scenery you're going to catch in your sketch book. This time it's better to take minimal set of materials. So I would advise you to choose in advance, right. The offense and the color scheme, the dual use and the spot. So you wouldn't need to think about it like there. Most important part of Sketchbook drawing is that you don't have to limit yourself. Make a sketch book a safe space for your drawings and experiments. Observe and enjoy nature, and then feel these crumbled sketchbook pages, colors, emotions, your thoughts, and life, because high expectations may goes disappointed. So open your heart to a lot of opportunities and a lot of different options for the outcome of events as well. You will go with everything and it will be fine, I believe in you and don't forget, it's fine if it's not perfect. And I can tell you that when you draw in nature, the drying probably won't turn out the way you want it and imagined in your head because you have to drop quiet fast since the light changes quickly, as well as to better conditions 7. Let's Wrap Up: No matter what goes down and our crazy world that we can always count on the beauty and be some nature to lift our spirits. Thank you for watching this course through to the end. I hope you're feeling super inspired to fill your sketchbook with all the beautiful things you see around you. There's so much beauty out there just waiting to be captured, then remember it forever. So if there's one thing I want you to take from this class is that the inspiration is all around us. We just need to look closer and explore 8. Project: I believe it's time for you to embark on your own adventure, to find inspiration, to kick things off, I recommend creating a board on Pinterest and filling it with all the captivating grinds personally, I find Glenn their artworks the most inspiring. Once you capture the drawing in your sketch book, Don't forget to share with us in the project section, I'd love to see your work and offer some encouragement as well if you'd like any additional feedback from me, just mention that and description or comments. I'm always here to help and provide advice. Epic creating