Visual Narrative for Captivating Illustrations
Briefcase
A course by Álvaro Cardozo W , Digital Illustrator
About the video: Briefcase
Overview
“Visual narrative does not only apply to individual illustration pieces, your portfolio is a general piece and should tell a very important story: What is your purpose as an illustration professional? This will determine the future of your career and the type of clients that will seek your job. In this last lesson, I will share with you my experience not only creating a portfolio to start my career but during my time as a professional and the most common mistakes that I have found reviewing portfolios of applicants in my time as an art director.”
In this video lesson Álvaro Cardozo W addresses the topic: Briefcase, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Narrative for Captivating Illustrations. Learn how to create digital illustrations applying concepts and tools from the film industry.
Partial transcription of the video
“Briefcase Now I'll show you how to give your portfolio purpose, how to project yourself to build your career. Let's go. LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES Let's talk about the portfolio. It is a controversial topic, but it is the most important. Learn from my mistakes because I'm not the only one who makes them and during my time at Caterpillar as an art director, while I had to hire applicants or part of the team, I had to go through portfolios and the things you see. They are the mistakes in which oneself falls. When I got out of college it wasn't enough that they didn't even know what to do with my ...”
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Course summary for: Visual Narrative for Captivating Illustrations
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Narrative, Traditional illustration
Álvaro Cardozo W
A course by Álvaro Cardozo W
Álvaro Cardozo is an illustrator from Bogotá, Colombia who invested his time and effort into becoming a digital illustrator, despite initially studying graphic design. After successfully carrying out his first illustration project at university, he was contracted by an animation studio to join their production team, designing scenes, characters, props, and storyboards, until he was eventually promoted to an Art Director position.
He began his freelance career in 2014. Since then, he has worked with advertising agencies, production studios, video game studios, and authors on a range of international projects. His client portfolio includes video game and animation studios like Skew Studio in the UK, Oruga Touching Dreams, and Autobotika, as well as editorial work for Penguin Random House and independent writers. All of his work can be found on his website.
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