Illustration for Beginners: Find Your Own Method
Trace what you like
A course by Daniel Roldan , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Trace what you like
Overview
“You will look for pictures of objects that attract you from magazines. From these I will help you discover how these shapes can represent what you have perceived at first sight and many other things. ”
In this video lesson Daniel Roldan addresses the topic: Trace what you like, 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
“Trace what you like Well, we start with Tracing what we like. In this lesson we will trace figures and then change the meaning. The materials are very simple: a couple of markers, tracing paper, and a magazine. I bought it a long time ago at a train station, an old magazine, but it is a magazine of design and architecture. So I know that all the content that is here has a job on the form. Each of its objects has a design that I will take, is a design that I will own. You can choose magazines of this type for this lesson, but they can also choose photos of objects that they have at home or t...”
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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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