Conceptual Illustration: Big Ideas in a Single Image

Drawing Three Idea Sketches on Paper

A course by Lennart Gäbel , Conceptual Illustrator

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1,917 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Drawing Three Idea Sketches on Paper

Overview

“In this lesson, we will turn our best ideas into sketches that we can later present to a client.”

In this video lesson Lennart Gäbel addresses the topic: Drawing Three Idea Sketches on Paper, 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

“Drawing Three Idea Sketches on Paper Alright, so we have created a whole bunch of ideas. We picked our three favorites and in this lesson, we will form them into idea sketches. A larger version, more cleaned up, to show to potential clients. We have our ideas. We are happy about them, but they look really messy. If we want to show this to a potential client, and in our case, we assume that it's a real-life assignment here, we're going to show three ideas to our client. We have to make them presentable, a little larger, a little more detailed. Not too detailed, but the main focus is on the i...”

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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.