Illustration of Vectorial Caricatures
The body and the gesture
A course by Jorge Arévalo , Illustrator / designer
Learn to create portraits of recognisable characters with an elegant style
- Spanish with subtitles in English
- 95% positive reviews (167)
- 1870 students
About the video: The body and the gesture
Overview
“Although we have already outlined on paper the position of the characters, now we have to define them well, each character has certain measures that build their personality. You will see how I provide them, I make them dynamic and I will compose them in a page so that they are compensated. I will show you how to mark lines of composition to give rhythm to the illustration.”
In this video lesson Jorge Arévalo addresses the topic: The body and the gesture, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration of Vectorial Caricatures. Learn to create portraits of recognisable characters with an elegant style.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] Ok, let's start to value the gesture. We have made a sketch that you have seen before, we have it in mind. Let's go a little bit to recreate the movement, have rhythm, that has dynamism, that the curves begin to flow. Above all, the illustration has to be elegant. In my style, that is very present. I think it's very important, and many times the magazines demand it, I think that in this case, as she is a model, we're going to try everything, let's say, it works, be a whole, that has dynamism, that has harmony, that the illustration looks beautiful as a whole. For that the body has t...”
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Course summary for: Illustration of Vectorial Caricatures
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Comic, Drawing
A course by Jorge Arévalo
Jorge Arévalo is an illustrator and graphic designer. Since the end of the 90s, his illustrations have been requested by important publications such as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Vogue, Telva, Rolling Stone, Esquire or Vanity, being of special mention his characters for the supplement The Moon of the newspaper El Mundo.
Throughout his career he has been awarded with a Gold medal, two Silver and several mentions in the International Awards of the SND (Society for News Design-USA) and in 2005 he published his first book, "Portraits", awarded with the National Award of Editorial Design Daniel Gil and the National Award of the AEPC.
Next he would publish "Bis", a book of erotic illustrations inspired by the collection "Cherchez la femme". "Retratos" and "Bis" are currently sold in bookstores around the world.
His next job challenge was to create the illustrations for the presentation of the new television channel Cuatro for which he also designed two animated films. Later, a series of illustrations for the clothing collections of the Custo Barcelona brand arrived. Along with Custo, he also decorated an MTV plane and ferries of the Barcelona-Ibiza line.
In 2014 his illustrations were included in the "Illustration now" compilation of the Taschen publishing house as well as in the compilation "Portraits" and "100 illustrators" where the 100 best active illustrators in the world are selected.
In 2015 he published "Portraits", a new book of almost 200 pages with new characters published in magazines such as Vanity Fair or The New Yorker. It was published in three languages and is currently distributed worldwide.
- 95% positive reviews (167)
- 1870 students
- 13 lessons (1h 33m)
- 9 additional resources (5 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese
- Level: Intermediate
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