Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
First Sketches
A course by Nicholas Blechman , Art Director, Illustrator, and Designer
Joined January 2020
Joined January 2020
About the video: First Sketches
Overview
“My assignment is to illustrate an article on our obsession with cars and its consequence on the environment. How can I translate that into a sketch? I'll show you the initial thumbnails I drew then I'll develop these into proper sketches. Remember not to spend too much time on these first sketches — you don't know which idea will be approved by the Art Director yet. Simply go with your intuition.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Blechman addresses the topic: First Sketches, 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
“First Sketches In the previous lesson, we did warm-up exercises. In this lesson, we're going to work on the final project with the manuscript. I've received the brief and I've read through it, and I quickly underlined those parts that seemed most pertinent to me in expressing the essence of the article. Then, as I did that, I started to do little doodles in the margins of the paper. Whatever ideas bubbled up in my mind, I quickly translated them onto the paper. The article is about cars, our obsession with cars, and the implications that has for the environment. For example, there's this on...”
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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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