I’m absolutely loving going through my Sketchbook Design course again with an amazing cohort. So much fun!
It’s giving me a chance to rethink how I use text and headings, and it’s reminding me how much I love ‘colour blocks’. These are coloured backgrounds that can really make your pages pop!
I typically use them for single objects, but my partial sky technique can also be considered a colour block, especially when it relates to other elements on the same double-page spread. The image above is an example.
Here are a few other colour blocks from my sketchbooks in the last month or so.
Do you ever use this technique in your sketchbook pages?
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Love the pages you create Liz – and I realize from doing the Sketchbook Design course the techniques you use to bring the page alive! What you share here is continuing education for me! Thank you.
Thanks Prashanta – bringing pages alive is what Sketchbook Design is all about!
Hi Liz!
Just wondering – did you draw the objects first, followed by adding the frame then the colour block?
p.s. are you coming to Wellington again in January?
Diane
Hi Diane – yes object first, colour block later. And yes, I hope to be in Welly again next year!
I love the page that capture the bits and bobs of everyday life, and color blocks are such a great way to make those pages really pop! The colors used are so expressive and really capture the mood, as much as the text does. Love these so much!
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