Illustration of Vectorial Caricatures
Character Styles
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: Character Styles
Overview
“This lesson is fun, we decide how the characters are going to be dressed. We must be coherent with his personality, the context and above all with the general look we want to give to the illustration.”
In this video lesson Jorge Arévalo addresses the topic: Character Styles, 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] Let's see now the [Inaudible] character. We have the illustration already, quite embedded, we know the position of our protagonists and now we are going to dress them. It is also a fun part. To think that in my work there is a wealth of textures, but those textures go much more to clothes, jackets, Even to the funds. In this case we will decide what would be the best, the most optimal, for the illustration that we are going to develop, and for the briefing that the magazine has given us. [Music] Let's start with Terry. Terry [Inaudible] with the bare torso, that is very characterist...”
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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
- Unlimited access forever
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