Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
Influences
A course by Nicholas Blechman , Art Director, Illustrator, and Designer
Joined January 2020
Joined January 2020
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Inspiration is fundamental to the creative process — everyone has design heroes — and so I thought it important to share with you some of my main influences.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Blechman addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills. Turn ideas into images and deliver professional illustrations for articles from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Now you know a bit more about me, in this lesson, I'm going to talk about my influences. One of my biggest inspirations is a book called "Art of The Times," a collection of the illustrations that appeared on the Op-Ed page of "The New York Times" in the 1970s. For me, this is the birth of political art. Each of these drawings are done in black and whites. They were made for a newspaper. They were done under deadline, very quickly, and each one has an idea. Here, for example, on the left is an illustration by R.O. Blechman, that's my dad, made during the Watergate Crisis called "A...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration
Nicholas Blechman
A course by Nicholas Blechman
Nicholas Blechman is an award-winning illustrator, art director and the current creative director of The New Yorker. He was first introduced to illustration and design at a young age by his father, a cartoonist, author, and filmmaker; and later went on to study studio art and art history at Oberlin College.
During his 20-year career, he has illustrated for the biggest publications in the U.S., including GQ Travel + Leisure, Wired, and The Atlantic. His passion for telling stories through images has seen him co-author books, run his own design studio, and work as the art director for The New York Times. In 2012, Nicholas was also awarded the Rome Prize in Design at The American Academy in Rome.
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