Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
Pencil Drawing
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: Pencil Drawing
Overview
“The hand drawings I am going to do now will be the basis for my cover. In my case, I am using pencils but any other technique is fine! Different elements should be drawn separately to be able to adjust the composition later in Photoshop. ”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: Pencil Drawing, 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
“Pencil drawing Now, I have finished my collage, my Photoshop collage, my Frankenstein's monster, and I've already printed it out because now it's time to do the hand drawing and I use a lightbox for this. This time. Maybe one of the dirty secrets of the illustration trade, there's not many illustrators who would admit to using a lightbox, but, well, I just think it saves time and what's important is the outcome, So what the heck! I'll use one. I'll also use three different pencils. I have here an 8B, which is very soft, an H, which is hard, and an HB, which is middling. I'll start with the ...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
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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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