Nature-Inspired Design: Botanical Character Illustration
About the class
In this class, you will be immersed in the world of botanical character illustrations. You will learn to intricately capture the beauty of plants, flowers, and trees. The class will teach you how to pick the right references, trace, break, simplify, and then combine them to create your own creature.
You will derive the botanical elements to draw characters, using the main principles of the design: silhouettes, color palettes, and exaggeration. This course will enable you to breathe life into your creatures and connect with the natural world.
This class is designed to teach new methods for creating and illustrating characters, especially for beginners.
Materials needed for this class:
Sketchbook
Pencil
Ink pen
Coloring material of your choice
Graphic tablet/ iPad with Photoshop or Procreate
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“What a fantastic class! Masho breaks down character design into easy-to-follow steps, shares in-depth information about how to find inspiration around you (with a botanical focus in this class), uses basic shapes, decides on character types, and explores color, as well as how to refine ideas and how to explore all the possibilities. I loved that it was a mix of traditional sketching and digital drawing. And Masho provides so many examples of how to approach the idea of botanical character design, you get so inspired. I highly recommend this class!”
— Elisabeth Wellfare
“This class is great for overcoming creative block and reminds artists that inspiration can be found in odd places. Thank you for the class and for reminding me of that!”