Making a Technical Illustration

If you are interested in create technical illustration and has that skill for drawing then you can also create professional looking technical illustration by following some of the simple steps provided here. The first to create a good illustration is by doing the initial drawing and inking. Rather than starting to draw the straight away, you should first create an initial drawing on a paper. Though illustrations are made on canvas, as a beginner you can start your drawing on a paper first and then convert the final drawing on a canvas. This will help in ensuring that your final work does not come with any errors or need for corrections. Moreover, it will also prevent the formation of the ink or eraser residues along with dirt particles appearing on the canvas. This will also give you a confidence to present your final drawing in the accurate form. After giving a rough drawing, you should mark the shading on the paper in detail and then you can trace the outlines on your drawing from the paper to the canvas by making use of all the necessary tools for drafting.

A very flexible tool used for drawing illustration is the airbrush. The use of airbrush for shading the drawings offers the person with great control over the art and also provides better color blending. When blending the colors using an air brush, you have to start doing it from the bottom of the drawing and then slowly go to the left and from there to the right hand side. The right method of smudging is important for preventing the smudging of the colored areas and to do the work perfectly. According to your creativity and ideas, you can expose the area of art work to be blend with colors using the air brush conveniently.

The process of rendering is also highly important in technical illustration. You have to add the details and highlights of shades properly with a brush and cover the sections you have selected by drawing black outlines in its basic form. You can complete your drawing by including your ideas for a final touch. With lots of practice and dedication, you can become a successful technical illustrator. Since the field of technical illustration finds application in a number of areas like web, user manuals, books, encyclopedias, learning manuals etc, you have a bright future with a rewarding career in front of you as a professional technical illustrator.

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Technical Instruction For Making Children's Book Illustrations

So, the first what I do is to DRAW! It sounds very simple , isn't it!? But seriously, first I imagine the picture in my head, and then create a rough with HB or 2B pencil (it depends what I have at home) on paper A4. When I feel ok, or sometimes fabulous (rarely) it is ready to clean-up, I use a non-permanent black pen, the exact name of it is Stabilo OHPen Universal. I tell because this is a wonderful pen, helped me a lot during work. After all these I scan the picture on 300 dpi in Photoshop as PSD format. In Photoshop the first thing what I do is to choose the right colors for the background of the illustration, because later they can't be changed so much, for example: the sky is blue, the tree and grass are green, the water can be dark blue, an so on...

Later it will be easier to compare the colors with the smaller details. Normally I use the paint bucket to fill the big areas of the picture, after with a tablet I can paint with the brush tool, to make some shadows - I use in multiply mode. But the most important in coloring is the bright-feeling when I am watching the picture, it shouldn't upset me.

Sometimes happens to me that I am not satisfied with my result, then I have import some different layers with other elements, like new characters or new objects into my children's book illustration.

Monika Vass is a professional children's book illustrator.Unlike other illustrators Monika do not draw super realistics illustrations, but cartoon styled, funny and bright colored ones, what children - between 0 and 10 - really loves. See the portfolio at http://www.monikabookillustrator.com