Artist's Sketchbook for Illustration Projects
Influences
A course by Aleix Gordo Hostau , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“From a very young age, comics and animation series were part of my visual culture on the same level as the painting classics. My influences are pop surrealism, comics, urban art, and visual folklore from traditional (eminently Asian) cultures.”
In this video lesson Aleix Gordo Hostau addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artist's Sketchbook for Illustration Projects. Document your creative process to the final sketch and use your sketchbook as a personal archive.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Now I will tell you what my influences are. I will start with two characters that I really like and they have been my references since I was little. They are Moebius and Katsuhiro Ôtomo. I have chosen them because they are both two pillars of two civilizations from the drawing. Both have revolutionized the world of science fiction and thanks to science fiction, also the world of cinema, and other worlds that are not drawing strictly speaking. Moebius is a French cartoonist who began to succeed as a cartoonist in the 70s and it is one of the components of the first comic magazine ...”
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Course summary for: Artist's Sketchbook for Illustration Projects
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Aleix Gordo Hostau
A course by Aleix Gordo Hostau
Aleix lives in Barcelona and has always drawn. He began his career as a professional illustrator drawing for children's and young people's books and making covers for publishing houses. Since then, he has worked for the press, advertising agencies, and several international companies from various sectors, such as Porsche, Seat, Nike, Adidas, Converse, Intel, or Amazon.
Nowadays, he focuses his work in the field of painting and illustration, muralism, urban art, graphic design, and his own licensing brand.
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