Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
The Beginning of It All: The Text
A course by Nicholas Blechman , Art Director, Illustrator, and Designer
Joined January 2020
Joined January 2020
About the video: The Beginning of It All: The Text
Overview
“The text is the most important document for an illustrator — that is where all your ideas will stem from. In this lesson, I'll take you through my process for coming up with a concept through a careful reading of the text.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Blechman addresses the topic: The Beginning of It All: The Text, 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
“The Beginning of It All: The Text In the previous lesson, you met the art director. In this lesson, we're going to look at the text. That's the beginning of it all. As an illustrator, this is the most important document. In the text lie all the answers and all the ideas for our drawings so it's important to take your time to read it through carefully and to let the text suggest ideas that you can then sketch. This is an article on the rise of artificial intelligence. I'll take a yellow highlighter, and I'll scan through it very quickly and highlight those phrases and sentences which to me s...”
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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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