Illustrating Commissions by Clint Cearley

Learn the professional’s process for illustrating commissions with Clint Cearley, illustrator and art educator!

This class is aimed for the artist who already has fundamental drawing skills and is beginning to work from outlines (whether commissions, challenges or competitions). A key to stepping up to a professional level is having a solid workflow that will consistently produce good results on your projects, and that’s the focus of this class. Based on 15+ years of professional illustration and teaching art, Clint will guide you through the process from reading the outline to final details while using the Pegasus illustration as an example.

Topics covered include:

• How to game plan your illustration from reading the outline

• Creating great thumbnail sketches using simple compositional designs

• The ever-popular character design process

• Creating value studies before painting with two demo methods

• Easy approach to color studies based on inspiration images

• Common mistakes non-pros make in composition and rendering

Scattered throughout the lessons are non-skills advice based on experience; such as using controlled creativity, marks of artistic maturity, and the lengths illustrators go to create great work. The class is also full of annotations and supported with loads of examples.

After this class you can be confident knowing you have a solid approach to tackling outlines and commissions!