Conceptual Illustration: Big Ideas in a Single Image

Brainstorming Ideas and Thumbnails Sketching 1

A course by Lennart Gäbel , Conceptual Illustrator

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Audio: English

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About the video: Brainstorming Ideas and Thumbnails Sketching 1

Overview

“Now we will create a whole bunch of ideas and create some rough sketches in our sketchbook.”

In this video lesson Lennart Gäbel addresses the topic: Brainstorming Ideas and Thumbnails Sketching 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Conceptual Illustration: Big Ideas in a Single Image. Discover how to generate powerful ideas and translate them into compelling illustrations that attract your dream clients.

Partial transcription of the video

“Brainstorming Ideas and Thumbnails Sketching Hi, and welcome back. Now the fun really begins. In this lesson, we'll create a whole bunch of ideas and draw them in our sketchbook. What you need is a pen or a pencil and some paper. I use a sketchbook for better organization of all of my ideas. Take your pencil and your pen. Draw on paper, not on your phone. Don't draw on an iPad. Not on a screen I mean. Because I don't know why, but it feels kind of different. You don't focus on the media outcome, but you really can concentrate and let the flow go. When I say this flow, I mean your thoughts r...”

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Course summary for: Conceptual Illustration: Big Ideas in a Single Image

Level: Beginner
95% positive reviews (82)
1917 students
4 units
16 lessons (3h 59m)
6 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Designer
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration

Lennart Gäbel

A course by Lennart Gäbel

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Conceptual Illustrator

Lennart Gäbel is a conceptual illustrator from Germany. After studying economics at university he took a job in marketing but his strong interest in drawing and creativity prevailed and he quit his job to study illustration at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam. An exchange program took him to the School of Visual Art in New York City and this is where Lennart truly discovered his style.

His illustration of Donald Trump, which he shared on Facebook prior to the 2016 US election, was shared globally in newspapers, blogs and in demonstration imagery. Since then he’s worked for numerous clients including Playboy, Huffington Post, Volkswagen, and Der Spiegel. One of his covers for Der Spiegel also saw him win Germany’s Cover of the Year in 2018.