Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

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 by Lorenzo Mattotti Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay Maniera by Yoshitaka Amano Neo Rauch: The Obsession of the Demiurge by Harald Kund (text) and Neo Rauch (illustrations)

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

“Hi everyone. Now I want to share with you some of my influences. I brought a few books. Only four. I have a lot more, but I feel like 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 as well. So this particular book is called Chimera. It's by Lorenzo Matodi. He's an Italian illustrator. This book has no color except for the red that you see here. It's purely black and white ink drawings. It's one of my favorite books on my bookshelf. And I'm talking top 10. I love comics and graphic novels, but I have to confess that I do...”

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Course summary for: Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 18 lessons (3h 6m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration