Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style

Sketch and Start of Our Project

A course by Celeste Vargas Hoshi , Illustrator and Visual Artist

Illustrator and Visual Artist. Lima, Peru.
Joined July 2020
100% positive reviews (73)
2,693 students
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About the video: Sketch and Start of Our Project

Overview

“It is convenient to drag the elements that will or will be in the illustration from the mood board and put together a kind of skeleton of the image to get an idea of the final project. I need to see an idea of the final result before starting. Therefore, from the beginning we will fill the entire canvas to have a general view of how it will end, and we will advance our project globally. At this time we can evaluate how the color will influence the illustration, the correct composition of the space. ”

In this video lesson Celeste Vargas Hoshi addresses the topic: Sketch and Start of Our Project, 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

“Sketching and Starting Our Project Now, we’ll use the mood board to make a collage that will help during our composition. Let’s go! We’ll create our file by sketching a skeleton of the general structure of our art nouveau composition. I’ll start by finding the photo of my grandmother. Remember that we have our mood board file with poses that I’ve collected from pictures of my grandmother, and that I’d chosen this particular one as the basis for my drawing. We have a lot of flexibility as to how we want to represent the person. Remember that the detail that’s going to make our person recogni...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (73)
  • 2693 students
  • 4 units
  • 32 lessons (7h 0m)
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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

Celeste Vargas Hoshi
A course by Celeste Vargas Hoshi

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Illustrator and Visual Artist

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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Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style. Illustration course by Celeste Vargas Hoshi

Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style

A course by Celeste Vargas Hoshi
Illustrator and Visual Artist. Lima, Peru.
Joined July 2020
  • 100% positive reviews (73)
  • 2,693 students