Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
Warm-up Exercises
A course by Nicholas Blechman , Art Director, Illustrator, and Designer
Joined January 2020
Joined January 2020
About the video: Warm-up Exercises
Overview
“You know what conceptual tools you can use. Now, I'm going to show you how to apply them. I'll go back to the scribbles I made in the margins of the article and see which I can develop into a more coherent sketch.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Blechman addresses the topic: Warm-up Exercises, 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
“Warm-up Exercises In the previous lesson, you learned some conceptual tools. In this lesson, you'll learn how to apply them. I'll go back to the article and look at the scribbles I did on the margins of the page, and see which one we can develop into a more coherent, beautiful sketch. We have this one here of "The Thinker," so I'm using a historical reference, and then I'm making an association with the cliché of a thought balloon drawn in a way that is suggestive of artificial intelligence. That to me clearly says thinking and computers, so I'll try that. There are better ways to render th...”
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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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