Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
Conceptual Tools
A course by Nicholas Blechman , Art Director, Illustrator, and Designer
Joined January 2020
Joined January 2020
About the video: Conceptual Tools
Overview
“Now that you've read the article, the work begins. To guide you, I'll explain to you the main conceptual tools to have in mind when starting your sketch: graphic devices, associations, metaphors, hyperboles, and more.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Blechman addresses the topic: Conceptual Tools, 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
“Conceptual Tools In the last lesson, you've read the text. Now you've done that, it comes the fun part of actually trying to interpret it visually. There are a bunch of conceptual tools out there that you can use. Some of them are clichés, some of them are symbols. Sometimes they're associations between different symbols coming together. These are different categories, broad categories, in which these tools fall into. CONCEPTUAL TOOLS Graphic Devices In a first instance, there are what I call graphic devices. This little scribble, for example, is just a technique, an approach, and in and of...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
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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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