Stylish Illustrated Portraits with Mixed Media
Getting Inspired
A course by Karen Savard Klassen , Illustrator
About the video: Getting Inspired
Overview
“Here, I will show you how to create a beautifully illustrated portrait for the course project. I will also discuss how my sketchbook habit helps me with my professional work and how you can use a sketchbook to develop who you are as an artist.”
In this video lesson Karen Savard Klassen addresses the topic: Getting Inspired, which is part of the Domestika online course: Stylish Illustrated Portraits with Mixed Media. Combine fashion and portraiture to create eye-catching illustrations filled with texture and personality using both traditional and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Getting Inspired In this lesson, I'll show you how important keeping a sketchbook is to my process. It's a place where I can experiment and be free, and it informs my professional work. I have old sketchbooks from when I was a little kid. In college, we were made to keep a sketchbook as part of our grade. I'm glad that we were. It helped to create a daily sketchbook discipline that I've maintained over the years since graduation. Sketchbooks are an important place to record your growth. It's an important place to experiment and try new things without judgment from yourself and without judgm...”
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Course summary for: Stylish Illustrated Portraits with Mixed Media
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Acrylic Painting, Digital Illustration, Fine Arts, Traditional illustration
Karen Savard Klassen
A course by Karen Savard Klassen
Karen Klassen is a freelance illustrator from Calgary, Canada, with a degree in design from the Alberta College of Art and Design. Shortly after graduating, she launched her freelance career and has since collaborated on projects in a range of fields such as publishing, advertising, pattern design, and, most notably, fashion and lifestyle, which have become her expertise. She was initially attracted to fashion and portraiture because they give her a sense of freedom and allow her to experiment with different techniques and mediums, searching for the best way to render a particular type of fabric, silhouette, or pattern.
She’s always shared her personal work on social media, which has led to commissions from a wide variety of clients including Folio Society, Bankers Hall, RedBloom Salons, and magazines such as Rolling Stone, LA Weekly, The National Post, and The Sunday Times. She’s also received numerous illustration awards from American Illustration, Communication Arts, and Applied Arts, as well as AR100 and the Society of Illustrators.
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