Artistic Illustration Techniques with Graphite Pencils
Looking in the text to make good sketches
A course by Ricardo Núñez Suarez , Illustrator
Expand the pencil's limits in editorial illustration and learn the process to tell stories through drawing
- Spanish with subtitles in English
- 97% positive reviews (295)
- 3601 students
About the video: Looking in the text to make good sketches
Overview
“I'm going to start by reading the text that I did for this exercise and I'm going to highlight the most important words. With them I will pose the first sketches of the final illustration. ”
In this video lesson Ricardo Núñez Suarez addresses the topic: Looking in the text to make good sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Illustration Techniques with Graphite Pencils. Expand the pencil's limits in editorial illustration and learn the process to tell stories through drawing.
Partial transcription of the video
“Looking in the text to make good sketches I hope we have learned a lot in the last unit. In this unit we will have a text. We will learn to find those words that are important in that text and those words we will use to make an illustration. That illustration will complement the text, rather than just embellish it. Below in the resources of this unit you can find the text. The illustration that I will do is about a writing that I did about a trip I had to Lake Titicaca. The landscape is beautiful, the view captivated me, but what I really liked was the Titicaca frog. It is the only frog tha...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Illustration Techniques with Graphite Pencils
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
A course by Ricardo Núñez Suarez
Ricardo Suárez is a freelance illustrator from Colombia. Although he has illustrated his entire life, it wasn’t until he was thirty years old that it became his career. He left his Graphic Design job for advertising agencies in Australia to go back to Colombia and achieve his dream of becoming an illustrator. He took part in many exhibitions in Brazil, Colombia, England, and Cuba; He also obtained a grant to do a Master’s in Illustration, in the United States.
His biggest influence when illustrating is life itself, filled with stories, landscapes, and adventures that deserve to be illustrated in pencil, his favorite tool.
His work has been recognized by Latin American Illustration, American Illustration, Applied Arts Students Awards, Creative Quarterly, 3x3 Magazine, Manifest Gallery in the United States, HiiiBrand in China, Australian Centre for Moving Image, among others.
- 97% positive reviews (295)
- 3601 students
- 12 lessons (1h 17m)
- 9 additional resources (5 files)
- Online and at your own pace
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- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Beginner
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