Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
Discarding Ideas
A course by Nicholas Blechman , Art Director, Illustrator, and Designer
Joined January 2020
Joined January 2020
About the video: Discarding Ideas
Overview
“How does the Art Director review the sketches the illustrator has done and see which one could go on the cover of the magazine? Let me walk you through the process.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Blechman addresses the topic: Discarding Ideas, 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
“Discarding Ideas In the previous lesson, the illustrator did a bunch of sketches, and now I, as an art director, am going to review them. This is the fun part. Oh, I like this. This is good, just the sheer density of it. Usually less is more, but sometimes if you have a maximalist way of using it and just draw more and more, this is what I meant by exaggerating. The confusion in this drawing to me says chaos and how cars are evil, so I think that works nicely. Oh, this is really original. I've never seen this idea before of taking the city and putting it into the hood of the car. Illustrati...”
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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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