Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
Alphabet of images
A course by Gastón Caba , Character designer and illustrator
About the video: Alphabet of images
Overview
“Reviewing our inspirational notebooks we will find images to build an alphabet and generate series of images in the manner of Marcel Dzama.”
In this video lesson Gastón Caba addresses the topic: Alphabet of images, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters. Create a narrative universe for your characters based on your own experiences.
Partial transcription of the video
“The lesson about my influences, talk about the work of Marcel Losama. I suspect that the tender method very particular to work, and on that method is that let's talk now. In his work you can see, how are repeated characters and objects that somehow configure a universe of personal obsessions. If we see for example this image, in which appear nurses and spectra. What we see is how each one of those elements could be abstracted and converted simply into letters to see how the internal structure of that image works, so we see for example that one side we have the spectra and on the other hand ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
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Character Design, Creativity
Gastón Caba
A course by Gastón Caba
Gastón Caba is an illustrator, character designer, pattern designer and teacher. He currently lives and works in the city of Quilmes, Buenos Aires. His designs and characters are internationally recognized for his cheerful and colorful style and he has worked for brands such as Adidas, Benetton, Diesel, Coca-Cola, Orange or Sony Playstation, among others.
In 2005 he created an ambitious project called Ping Pong Remix, in which he invited more than 70 artists from around the world to reinterpret his work.
From 2010 he started with his project We Love Patterns, a series of group and individual illustration courses in companies and colleges and in 2011 he joined the teaching team of Daniel Roldán's illustration department at the UBA.
Since 2015 he has collaborated in the magazine Anorak with his adorable character Round Bunny, a classic strip of four panels and in 2016 Round Bunny became the protagonist of the book "Churro, the rabbit" edited by Edelvives.
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