Artist's Notebook: Explore Illustration Techniques
Building images
A course by Jesús Cisneros , Drawing Artist, Illustrator, and Teacher
About the video: Building images
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how when drawing we can relate very different images to create meanings with which to illustrate concepts and ideas.”
In this video lesson Jesús Cisneros addresses the topic: Building images, 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
“Building Images In this lesson, we’ll take a look at an approach to building images. Throughout the course, we’ve worked with different subjects, from plants to animals to the human figure. Let’s go back to the human figure, looking at its main parts. Here is a drawing where you can see the parts of the human body related to the senses: the eye for sight, the ear for hearing, the hand for touch, the mouth for speech. With all these ingredients, plant and animal elements, the human figure seen as a full-body image and seen in detail, as I just showed you, we’ll build an image. It involves as...”
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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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