Editorial Illustration for Magazines

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you a way to use other artists' work and images when brainstorming ideas. I am going to talk about what parts of the images to pay attention to in order to open up your idea process.”

In this video lesson Emma Hanquist addresses the topic: Reference Images Search, 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

“So in this lesson, I'll show you how to use your words and associations and look for reference images. We're going to also look at what in those images will help you come up with an idea and also what kind of things to focus on, if it's a mood or a shape or something that pops your imagination. So let's see what we can find. Now that we have narrowed down the original text document down to a few sentences and words. And we've added associations and synonyms. We're going to use them in next step. to get further help in the idea process. So. Let's open up our document here. and we're going to...”

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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration for Magazines

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (318)
• 6863 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 13m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Communication, Digital Illustration, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration