Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

Influences

A course by Marcos Chin , Illustrator

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4,413 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Influences

Overview

“I hope you'll love the books I'm going to show you. Please, feel free to share the artists that influenced you. Or maybe I should say, share whatever influences or drives you.

Chimera

Color Moves: Art and Fashion

Yoshitaka Amano

Neo Rauch: The Obsession of the Demiurge

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In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Composition and Color for Creative Illustration. Learn how to visually interpret a written piece and turn it into a meaningful illustration.

Partial transcription of the video

“Influences Hi, everyone. I wanna share with you some of my influences. I brought a few books. Only four. I have a lot more but these are a few of the ones that really moved me in some way. And I'll show you how they are incorporated into my work. This particular book is called "Chimera". It's by Lorenzo Mattotti. He's an Italian illustrator. This book has no color, except for the red you see here. It's purely black and white in drawings. It's one of my favorite books on my bookshelf. And I'm talking top ten. I love comics and graphic novels, but I don't always read them. I love looking at t...”

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Course summary for: Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (232)
4413 students
4 units
18 lessons (3h 6m)
12 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration

Marcos Chin

A course by Marcos Chin

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Illustrator

Marcos Chin is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared on surface and wall designs, on book and CD covers, advertisements, fashion catalogs, and magazines. He has worked with companies such as MTA Arts for Transit, Neiman Marcus, Fiat, Budweiser, Time, Rolling Stone Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times.

Marcos has given lectures and workshops throughout the US and abroad. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches Illustration at the School of Visual Arts.