STEP 1: Choose Your Spot and Supplies

Can be anywhere, but best to choose one that has:

Decent lighting
A small table to put your stuff on
An armrest

Supplies & Equipment

A drafting board, or a large flat book
Paper — I’m going to use a very heavyweight cold pressed paper
Supplies: you can use any dry media that doesn’t create dust (CP, Pencil, markers) and portable wet media (travel palette, watercolor pencils).
A printed reference photo, or a mobile phone with your reference pic (working from photo here is preferable bc keeping consistent angle is difficult)

STEP 2: Choose Your Subject

Following along with the guidelines from Lesson 3, choose your subject from the things you have around the house. If you want to stick with the class theme, choose a food subject. If you want to branch out from that and draw an object, pet or loved one instead that's fine! Just make sure you choose it from what you have around already, and that's interesting to look at, and meaningful to you.

STEP 3: Take Your Reference Image

Following along with the guidelines from Lesson 4, photograph your reference image.

STEP 4: Sketch and Base Layer

Using a pencil and your art paper, create a sketch. Your sketch may have more or less detail than mine depending on your style and choice of subject. Then, if you've decided to use mixed media, select an appropriate base layer (watercolor, watercolor pencil, marker) to create a color map of your illustration.

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STEP 5: Form, Color and Value Development

Using your media of choice, either mixed or single, develop the detail, values and color of your subject.

STEP 6: Finishing Touches and Share

If using, add small final highlights with a paint pen.

Share your finished piece and process photos with the class in the projects tab.

Suzanne Berger

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