Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration
Who Let the Ideas Out? Concept Sketching
A course by Jon Berkeley , Illustrator and Author
About the video: Who Let the Ideas Out? Concept Sketching
Overview
“In this lesson, you’re going to get stuck into a real-life illustration brief. You will learn to read a text with your pencil in hand, to doodle or write every idea that comes to mind, and to jigsaw them together in as many ways as possible, watching for the sparks they knock off each other. ”
In this video lesson Jon Berkeley addresses the topic: Who Let the Ideas Out? Concept Sketching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration. Use your imagination to develop a conceptual illustration from start to finish using acrylic paints.
Partial transcription of the video
“Who Let the Ideas Out? Concept Sketching Now we come to the brief. This is where we learn to take an article that has been provided for us or a synopsis of an article and shake it like a terrier shaking a rat and get all the ideas out of it that we possibly can. For this lesson, I selected a real brief that I was given about a year ago. We will go through the whole process of taking this subject apart and seeing what ideas we can get out of it. I'll start by reading the brief. It goes like this. "The New Obscurantists" was the title. "We are witnessing the rise of 'new obscurantists', which...”
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Course summary for: Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Acrylic Painting, Creativity, Painting, Traditional illustration
Jon Berkeley
A course by Jon Berkeley
Jon Berkeley is an Irish illustrator and children’s author who has worked in the field for almost three decades and traveled to places like London, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Barcelona for illustration work. His passion for illustration began in his youth during the vinyl era, amazed by the artwork that adorned his favorite album covers, prompting him to further his intrigue and study Fine Art in Dublin, Ireland.
Most of his work is for editorial clients in major news and current affairs magazines like L’Express, The New Statesman, Volkskrant, The Economist, and others. He also works on major advertising campaigns and illustrates book jackets, packaging, as well as commissioned portraits for clients like Ted Baker, Vodafone, and Smirnoff.
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