Storytelling through Watercolor Illustration
Collection of references
A course by Daniela López Marín , Illustrator and Painter
About the video: Collection of references
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk to you about the importance of collecting different images that serve as a basis for working on our illustration. ”
In this video lesson Daniela López Marín addresses the topic: Collection of references, which is part of the Domestika online course: Storytelling through Watercolor Illustration. Learn to capture the moment by creating a visual work that tells a story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Collection of references In this lesson I will show you my collection of references. A large part of these photographs I have taken from Pinterest, Twitter and also on Google. The important thing about this collection is that it is an idea map. This will help me items which I started to do on my preliminary sketch. The photographs that I chose have an impact on these elements, for example, the photographs that appear here because of the way it is distributed, vertical. I had mentioned that in my sketch they would be this way. So I started looking for photos with this shape and this arrangem...”
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Course summary for: Storytelling through Watercolor Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Manga, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Daniela López Marín
A course by Daniela López Marín
Multidisciplinary artist Daniela López, also known as Dliok, is an illustrator and storyteller with a Fine Arts degree from the University of Chile. Her work aims to transmit sensations and emotions to the viewer by capturing soothing scenes of animals and nature.
Her unique aesthetic, heavily influenced by Japanese culture, has led her to collaborate with Harmonix and Hasbro on the music game Dropmix and several galleries in Chile and abroad. Daniela’s work can be found in a range of publications, at illustration fairs, and inside her online store.
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