Product Illustration Using Your Signature Style
Unlocking exercises
A course by Felipe Novoa (FEN) , Illustrator and Designer
Joined October 2019
About the video: Unlocking exercises
Overview
“Generally people believe that illustrators or designers are super creative and that ideas flow to us every day as a source of fresh and infinite water. Well they couldn't be more wrong and sometimes we don't really know what to draw. In this lesson I will show you some of the unlocking exercises that I use when my mind makes a bad move and does not send me fresh water. You will have to choose at least one of them and do an exercise, I hope they will help you a lot! ”
In this video lesson Felipe Novoa (FEN) addresses the topic: Unlocking exercises, which is part of the Domestika online course: Product Illustration Using Your Signature Style. Use pop culture elements to turn your illustrations into fun products with Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“UNLOCKING EXERCISES If you've ever felt blocked like me, Let's see the techniques that I use to inspire me, which I call unlocking exercises. Let's see it. The first unlocking exercise consists of intervening photographs. It is something that many people do and suddenly you too. It's something I did when I was a kid when magazines or newspapers came to my house. The first thing I did was take a pen and scratch all the photos. He did weird things to photos. After a while, already in professional life, I understood that this exercise serves to add details to the drawings. Suddenly when a clie...”
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Course summary for: Product Illustration Using Your Signature Style
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Branding & Identity, Digital Illustration, Packaging, Traditional illustration

Felipe Novoa (FEN)
A course by Felipe Novoa (FEN)
Felipe Novoa, also known as FEN, is an illustrator, graphic designer, and is passionate about photography. When he was a boy, he collected stickers and as a teenager, he took an interest in urban art and street stickers; This began his fervent journey into illustration, creating his own imaginative style and pursuing his dream to becoming a professional illustrator.
He has designed school notepads for Keepermate, suitcases for Totto, phone covers for Picmycase in California, and has illustrated for the clothing brands Caos in Colombia and Farolli in Peru, as well as illustrating articles for Bacanika magazine and Cartel Urbano.
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