Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers
Establishing Your Setting
A course by Ellen Weinstein , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Establishing Your Setting
Overview
“ Here you can see a demonstration of how colour can change the story and make you see it differently. In this example you can see how adding a new element and juxtaposing the existing scene with something new, makes you look at the scene differently. ”
In this video lesson Ellen Weinstein addresses the topic: Establishing Your Setting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers. Make visual narratives inspired by everyday scenarios, combining photography, painting, and digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now is the time to start working on our setting. I chose this photo because of the drama and the dramatic composition that it has. And I like to think of setting as if I were creating a stage set. So I start with the backdrop. I think about the colors, the textures. Is it an interior scene? Is it an exterior scene? Is it just a flat backdrop? And what are the elements that I have as part of my setting? In this case, I have these buildings that I chose. We're also going to have props like an object. We're going to have text. And then we're going to basically be setting the stage for the char...”
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Course summary for: Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Collage, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Ellen Weinstein
A course by Ellen Weinstein
Ellen Weinstein is an illustrator, author, and regular contributor to The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Pentagram Design, and many others. She has won numerous awards from American Illustration, Communication Arts, the Society of Illustrators Society of News Designers, and Art Directors Club. Ellen illustrated the children’s book Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity and is the author and illustrator of Recipes for Good Luck: The Superstitions, Rituals and Practices of Extraordinary People.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. She also teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and hosts lectures and workshops at art schools internationally.
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