Drawing and Collage for Editorial Illustration
Key aspects of the text and primary ideas in drawing
A course by Samuel Castaño , Illustrator and graphic designer
About the video: Key aspects of the text and primary ideas in drawing
Overview
“You will see how your personal reading of the text at the beginning will be key in the graphic universe that you are going to develop for your illustration. What aspects of the text speak to you in a more personal way? You will begin to quickly lower those ideas to a visual plane with simple and quick drawings. ”
In this video lesson Samuel Castaño addresses the topic: Key aspects of the text and primary ideas in drawing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing and Collage for Editorial Illustration. Learn how to conceptualize a written piece into an image filled with intricate detail by combining techniques and styles.
Partial transcription of the video
“Key aspects of the text and primary ideas in drawing Welcome to this lesson in which the first thing we will do is choose the text that will serve as the seed for the illustration that we will develop in the final project. I chose a haiku, a traditional Japanese poem, but you can choose another type of text. It can be a short poem that you like, a few lines from a song, in short, some small text that moves you particularly and it helps you to develop the final project. The first thing is to do a careful and slow reading of the text, in which we find and identify your key ideas, the spaces t...”
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Course summary for: Drawing and Collage for Editorial Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Collage, Digital Drawing, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Samuel Castaño
A course by Samuel Castaño
Samuel Castaño is an illustrator and graphic designer from Medellín. And despite having lived in other parts of the world, that is where he really finds the inspiration to create his works.
He began doing illustrations for magazines, newspapers and other media, but it was thanks to a self-publication called "Imperfections" that he made the leap into the publishing world. In recent years he has worked for publishers in Colombia, Mexico and Spain, such as Penguin RH, Alfaguara, Tragaluz, Juventud, Ekaré, SM, A buen paso, Castillo, Norma, among others.
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