Artist's Notebook: Explore Illustration Techniques
Seed and origin 1
A course by Jesús Cisneros , Drawing Artist, Illustrator, and Teacher
About the video: Seed and origin 1
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how you can draw from small natural elements collected on a walk, going from graphite to colored pencil.”
In this video lesson Jesús Cisneros addresses the topic: Seed and origin 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artist's Notebook: Explore Illustration Techniques. Spark your imagination and transform the experience of drawing into a source of inspiration and learning.
Partial transcription of the video
“Seed and Origin In this lesson we’ll start to work on our notebook. We will start with the plant elements. Then we will work with animals and finally with the human figure. So we start with the plant elements, which we’ll gather on a walk that we can take through a park or a forest. We have to pay attention to what we find: small leaves, branches, roots, seeds... I have here some of the natural elements that I've collected on various walks. There are leaves, there are seeds, there are bits of branch. The idea is to play around with these elements and then organize them as you see fit. I lik...”
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Course summary for: Artist's Notebook: Explore Illustration Techniques
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Areas
Creating with Kids, Creativity, Design, Fine Arts, Painting, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Jesús Cisneros
A course by Jesús Cisneros
Jesús Cisneros is a Spanish artist, illustrator, and teacher who has spent most of his career in Spain and several years in Mexico. As a drawing artist, he fills notebooks with his creations and then transforms them into graphic works of art and expositions, some of which have gone on display in Mexico City, Seoul, and Marseille. As an illustrator, he has published books in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, France, and the United Kingdom and has created illustrations for book covers, magazines, posters, and other related projects. He also travels the world sharing his knowledge in workshops and teaching courses for the International School of Illustration as part of the Štĕpán Zavřel Foundation in Sàrmede, Italy.
Over the course of his career, his work has been featured three times at the Bologna Children's Book Fair and recognized on numerous occasions including honorable mention at the biennial Ilustrarte exposition, the Honorable Mention Prize at Sharjah, the I colori del Sacro Award, and the Lazarillo Illustration Award.
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