Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style
Mood Board
A course by Celeste Vargas Hoshi , Illustrator and Visual Artist
Joined July 2020
About the video: Mood Board
Overview
“We are going to use the central ideas that we extract from the brainstorming, and with this reference we will put together a mood board. A mood board is a page where you organize all the graphic ideas you find, from color mixes, doodles and photos to pieces of art and other illustrations. In this lesson I will give you some ideas on how to find a wide variety of images to materialize your project.”
In this video lesson Celeste Vargas Hoshi addresses the topic: Mood Board, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style. Create a digital illustration in Photoshop based on a photograph, experimenting with a current and customized version of modernism.
Partial transcription of the video
“Mood Board In this lesson, we’ll think about the person we’re going to depict, finding references that help us reflect these ideas in pictures. Now that we’ve brainstormed some ideas and selected our color palette, we can move on to the mood board, or the reference images we’ll use to do our illustration. I like to use Pinterest to find pictures to guide me. Unlike Google, Pinterest is focused specifically on illustrations and photographs, so it’ll be easier to find references. With the words we’ve brainstormed, what I usually do is search for this word. You’ll usually get more results in E...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration

Celeste Vargas Hoshi
A course by Celeste Vargas Hoshi
Celeste Vargas is an illustrator with extensive experience in the editorial field. She has worked with renowned publishers like SM, Editorial Xilófono, and Estruendomudo, with which she published her last book Los Juguetes Perdidos de Hans Christian Andersen (The Lost Toys of Hans Christian Andersen).
She currently specializes in Art Nouveau and has introduced the style into her pieces with great mastery. The Nikkei people, feminism, and LGBTQI+ rights are all recurring themes in her work. Some of her pieces such as contemporary drawings, prints, and an art book have been exhibited in Peru, Mexico, and Japan
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