Drawing and Collage for Editorial Illustration
Digitization and completion
A course by Samuel Castaño , Illustrator and graphic designer
About the video: Digitization and completion
Overview
“I will show you the way I digitize my illustrations, you will also see how I handle the resolution and formats to go from one or several drawings on paper to an illustration in digital format already finished.”
In this video lesson Samuel Castaño addresses the topic: Digitization and completion, 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
“Digitization and completion In this lesson, I will talk about scanning and digitizing. Using Photoshop I will talk about format, resolution and color modes, also about cleaning the images, on how to clean the drawings so that they are optimally to compose the final illustration. I will show you. These are the original files the scanned drawings of the composition that I make. I have a separate drawing of the cicada, the drawing of the wings also separately, the sheets also scanned separately to make the collage, some other paper items and other complementary drawings that will help me to pu...”
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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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