Editorial Illustration for Magazines
Working With a Text
A course by Emma Hanquist , Illustrator
About the video: Working With a Text
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to work with your text document in order to find the essence of the content. I will also show you my method to sample the most important parts of the text - that will later serve as the basis in your next phase.”
In this video lesson Emma Hanquist addresses the topic: Working With a Text, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Illustration for Magazines. Learn how to use illustration as a communication tool to creatively enhance a text.
Partial transcription of the video
“Working with a text In this lesson I'll show you how to approach the document, how to structure it and how to narrow it down to find the true essence of the text. Let's get started. First, you wanna open your text document. These documents can look very different depending on who you're working with. If you're working with a magazine, you might get the full article to read or you'll get a short brief, a few pointers on the direction of the piece, but since we're working with a fictional assignment, I created this document to show you how the structure might look like. As you can see, it's j...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration for Magazines
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Communication, Digital Illustration, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration

Emma Hanquist
A course by Emma Hanquist
Emma Hanquist is a Swedish freelance illustrator with over ten years' experience in the field. She has worked in different areas of illustration, such as advertising, animation and, for the most part, editorial illustration.
Throughout the years, Emma has worked with several clients, including pretty much every magazine and newspaper in Sweden, as well as companies like Spotify, Airbnb, and the Boston Globe Magazine.
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