Drawing and Collage for Editorial Illustration
Assembly and location on the pages
A course by Samuel Castaño , Illustrator and graphic designer
About the video: Assembly and location on the pages
Overview
“With the illustration already digitized and in its final version, you will test how it behaves on the page, placing it together with the text you chose to achieve a layout that looks natural, harmonious and allows your illustration to stand out, but also respect and keep company to the text within the format.”
In this video lesson Samuel Castaño addresses the topic: Assembly and location on the pages, 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
“Assembly and location on the pages In this lesson, I will talk about mounting and the location of the illustration on the pages. Once we have the illustration already digitized and finished, we will move to locate it in the format to see how it behaves with the text and achieve a harmonic and balanced composition. I'm going to show you. Having then this element already assembled and armed, I will start to compose the final illustration in a format of the same dimensions of the page or the double page of the book for which we make these illustrations. So I have here a format of the double pa...”
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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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