Illustration for Beginners: Find Your Own Method
Stains and cuts
A course by Daniel Roldan , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Stains and cuts
Overview
“Get carried away by stains! I will teach you an exercise in which you will make a couple of spots on a sheet and from there you will start to create new things by superimposing several layers of color and textures. Then you will cut out figures that will allow you to build objects and animals. .”
In this video lesson Daniel Roldan addresses the topic: Stains and cuts, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration for Beginners: Find Your Own Method. Learn to express ideas with your own visual language and turn your creative process into a play space.
Partial transcription of the video
“Stains and cuts In this lesson we are going to make spots, let's mix colors, achieve textures and then trim. For that we have materials such as acrylics, the traditional and good acrylics, and we also have brushes, from brand new brushes just bought from the bookstore even older brushes, that offer us another type of textures. Besides that, we have more disruptive elements, like a sponge or cotton, and items to cut, such as scissors. I always have two tachitos with water and a place to mix the colors, a tray in this case. It can be a tray, a painter's palette, etc. Finally, a leaf. In this ...”
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Course summary for: Illustration for Beginners: Find Your Own Method
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Fine Arts, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration

Daniel Roldan
A course by Daniel Roldan
Illustrator and graphic designer Daniel Roldán has more than 20 years' experience working for Diario Clarín, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in circulation, where he has participated in all the supplements and magazines produced by the publishing group. He has also collaborated with other media and cultural publications such as Orsai.
He is the founder of the subjects "Initial Illustration" and "Editorial Illustration" from the graphic design course at the University of Buenos Aires, where he is currently a professor.
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