Playful Illustration Techniques for a Visual Diary
Including Natural Elements
A course by Diego Bianki , Illustrator
About the video: Including Natural Elements
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you practical exercises that you can do with found natural objects. You will see how I select one of them and turn it into clever drawings.”
In this video lesson Diego Bianki addresses the topic: Including Natural Elements, which is part of the Domestika online course: Playful Illustration Techniques for a Visual Diary. Learn a creative approach to illustration using unconventional tools and techniques while exploring your style in a sketchbook .
Partial transcription of the video
“Including Natural Elements Let's resume the lesson, and while I finished organizing the objects and tools to use in this area where we’re going to use natural elements, I started painting some new pages to generate new stimuli and contrasts according to our selected objects. In this case, the chosen element is the seed from tree that’s native to the southern part of South America, including Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil - southern Brazil to be precise - called the “glabella.” This is the seed from this beautiful tree with yellow flowers. With this seed, we’ll return to the concept of...”
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Course summary for: Playful Illustration Techniques for a Visual Diary
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Category
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Areas
Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketchbook, Watercolor Painting

Diego Bianki
A course by Diego Bianki
Diego Bianki is an Argentine illustrator and founder of the publishing company Pequeño editor, which was named the best publisher in Latin America at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. He has authored books and written content for TV that has been translated into multiple languages and broadcast in countries like Germany, the United States, France, Belgium, Spain, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Italy, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and Korea.
He also shares his passion with the world by organizing entertaining workshops and events for children and adults. On top of it all, he has written speeches and articles about editorial design, illustration, and editing, and his client lists includes major newspapers like La Vanguardia and Público from Spain and Clarín in Argentina.
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