Artist's Notebook: Explore Illustration Techniques
Garden and forest 1
A course by Jesús Cisneros , Drawing Artist, Illustrator, and Teacher
About the video: Garden and forest 1
Overview
“Here I will show you how you can work with black silhouettes and also to color paper with oil so that your notebook is filled with plants and insects like a small garden.”
In this video lesson Jesús Cisneros addresses the topic: Garden and forest 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
“Garden and Forest In this lesson we’ll work with two new techniques with a garden and forest theme. In the prior lesson, we saw how India ink and a paintbrush create a free and expressive stroke. Our gesture is depicted on paper like in calligraphy. Now we will work with a technique in which the figures are defined not by gestural lines, but by well-defined figures. It is the paper cut technique, which we find in the popular art of many cultures. I have already prepared black paper that I have colored with the technique we saw earlier. With oil, rub it with a cotton ball or small paper to c...”
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Course summary for: Artist's Notebook: Explore Illustration Techniques
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Category
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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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