Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
Frankenstein’s Monster (Photoshop)
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: Frankenstein’s Monster (Photoshop)
Overview
“"Frankenstein’s monster" is a quick assembly of bits and bobs from our image search which will serve us as reverence for our drawing. I’m not the kind of illustrator that can draw whatever you throw at her without even looking at a reference. If you want me to draw a tulip, I will look at 4 or 5 tulips from different angles while drawing. There is absolutely no shame in that and the result is always better for it! So, in this case, I will put together a kind of collage which I call “Frankenstein’s monster”, because that is what it looks like. It’s a quick assembly of several bits out of my image collection in the size of my future cover. I’ve googled for images of Egyptian gods and women holding guns before. I will use Photoshop for this. I’ll also put some more Egyptian scenes from the Book of the Dead in the background to drive the theme home. ”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: Frankenstein’s Monster (Photoshop), which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story. Learn the secrets of conceptual illustration to create an eye-catching book cover using analog and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Frankenstein's monster Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not the kind of illustrator to whom you can say, just draw me some tulips and I can do it perfectly all out of my head. I mean, I could draw some kind of tulip, but it certainly will look better if I have a look at four or five tulips before and then draw them from different angles, always looking at a reference. And because I need references, I have created help for myself, which I call Frankenstein's monster. And it's simply a collage, a very ugly collage of the images I found on Google before and which I assemble quickly on Phot...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
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Category
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Adobe Photoshop -
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Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Silja Goetz
A course by Silja Goetz
Silja has always loved to draw, and with the encouragement of her parents, she kept it up and decided early on that she wanted to become an illustrator. She studied Communication Design in Nüremberg while working as an illustrator for a magazine about animals for children, along with some work for magazines like Elle and Cosmopolitan.
Silja worked as a layout designer for Allegra Magazine (Germany) for over two years, where she learned to see illustration from an art director’s perspective. After deciding she wanted to create illustrations instead of working with the work of others, she took a leap of faith and moved to Spain, where she started working as a freelance illustrator.
She has worked with press clients like The New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, Outdoor magazine, and more, as well as on advertising projects for clients like Estrella Damm. Her book cover illustrations adorn the books of publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Gräfe und Unzer, and Doubleday.
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