Drawing and Collage for Editorial Illustration
Collage
A course by Samuel Castaño , Illustrator and graphic designer
About the video: Collage
Overview
“The elements that you were cutting out can go around the table and your drawing throughout the process, so you can see how they talk with each other and with what you are drawing. The collage brings new graphic elements and other natures, they surprise us and bring nuances and unforeseen readings to what you want to tell. You will learn how to search through the printed material that you save as images and graphic elements that you feel can converse with the universe that you are proposing. You will unfold them on the paper and begin to play with them: contrast them, superimpose them, cut them, and so on.”
In this video lesson Samuel Castaño addresses the topic: Collage, 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
“Collage In this lesson, we will approach collage as a complement to drawing starting a little from the search for references and graphic material that we had saved, accumulated for the project. I will start to put them on the drawings, to move it around the work area to see how these elements converse with each other and with the drawing. For one thing, I have dry leaves that can appear around. Also some musical elements from which things can come out. This texture that we can cut out as one of the wings. With collage we seek to bring other sensations in some way or other aesthetics a littl...”
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Course summary for: Drawing and Collage for Editorial Illustration
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Category
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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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