Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

Overview

“Let's start from the beginning, from the text that will inspire our illustration. Like people, animals, and things, an illustration has some an interior or inside, and an exterior, or outside. The outside is what the viewer sees, whereas the inside is the concept, idea, message, or story. In this stage, we just focused on the inside of our illustration. ”

In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: Interpreting and Depicting Your Text, 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

“Interpreting and Depicting Your Text Now we've reached this next lesson, which is interpreting and depicting text. Where I want to begin is to show you the text that I use to create my illustrations. I use text because, as an illustrator, I love words, I love to tell stories through my pictures and so when I have text I can actually tap into that and get inspired to create my pictures. For this particular example, which I would love for you to follow so you can learn about my process, the text that I've chosen is from an actual project that I worked on with a client, for "Variety" magazine....”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

Course summary for: Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

• Level: Beginner
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• 4416 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