Children's Picturebooks with Digital Techniques
Influences
A course by Guilherme Karsten , Writer and Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this class I will show you how a good illustrator needs first of all to have a good repertoire and where to find it! Everything in life can become a source of inspiration.”
In this video lesson Guilherme Karsten addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Picturebooks with Digital Techniques. Discover the techniques and digital tools to create unique visual narratives by composing an illustrated album that evokes the curiosity of young readers.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences To be a good illustrator, you need to create a good repertoire. And how do we create this repertoire, this reference of images and stories? Everywhere around us. A good song can become a good repertoire, good books, good movies, conversations with people, books we read, food we taste. I want to show some visual influences, some artists that inspire me and urge me to create good work. I want to start with the Italian artist Beatrice Alemagna. She is a self-taught Italian artist who lives in Paris. Your style of illustration may not be teachable because it creates different forms a...”
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Course summary for: Children's Picturebooks with Digital Techniques
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Guilherme Karsten
A course by Guilherme Karsten
Writer and illustrator Guilherme Karsten produces all his pieces digitally from start to finish. For an illustration to be compelling, he believes it must contain a creatively bold message that ignites something deep within in the reader.
He received his degree in Publicity and Advertising with a major in Graphic Design and has published five works and illustrated over thirty books for other authors. He was awarded the esteemed Golden Plaque (Slovakia) and the Golden Pinwheel (China) and is also a two-time finalist for the Jabuti Award, the most prestigious Brazilian editorial prize there is.
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