Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
5 Tips to grow your illustration skills
5 Tips to expand your illustration skills and style:
1. Use a few simple shapes to create a new one!

2. You dont need fancy and expensive art supplies to make art.
Use simple tools, like a ballpoint pen, to draw with.
Use simple tools, like a ballpoint pen, to draw with.

3. Choose a simple recipe that you love, and try drawing it.

4.Use your imagination to bring character to your art. Simply stack it all together.

5. Are you a so-called foodie, like me? Do you like making stuff? Why dont you join me in my upcoming online class Draw It Like Its Hot!

Well be drawing food and illustrating recipes and its going to be a lot of fun!
Enroll today, go to: www.koosjekoene.nl
Enroll today, go to: www.koosjekoene.nl
Monday, March 2, 2015
5 tips to make illustrated recipes
Lets draw and illustrate like theres no tomorrow!
Or well. Actually, there sure is a tomorrow. Because thats when my online workshop
on illustrating recipes and drawing food is starting!
1. Keep it simple when youre drawing.
A recycled piece of cardboard, white paint and a black fineliner can get you a long way.

2. To give your lettering that je ne sais quoi,
use alphabet stamps. Play around with them to get fun results!

3. Draw your food to get a daily routine of making art.
Youre eating every day anyway, right?
It also helps you to document great recipes.
It also helps you to document great recipes.

4. You can totally pull it off and create a simple illustrated recipe like this too!
Choose something with few ingredients to start with an take it step by step.
Choose something with few ingredients to start with an take it step by step.

5. Submit your recipe to TheyDrawAndCook.com
You can do it!
Like these three previous participants did for example:
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By Tina Johnson |
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By Cathy Levesque |
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By Kaiva Narbute |
Theres so much more where all this came from.
Will you join my online class?
Enroll today!

Saturday, February 28, 2015
3 tips for Character Design

Tip on character development:
Make the characteristic features clear. First for yourself, so you can translate it onto paper for the viewer.
Like here: eye patch, glasses, pig tales.
Tip 2:
Add accesories that tell a bit more about the characters personality. In this case: she probably likes to dip that oreo cookie in the milk.
Tip 3:
Join my workshop and learn more tricks! Go to http://goo.gl/tvEohX for info and enrollment
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