Creative Journaling for Illustration
Influences
A course by Matías Prado , Ilustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“My influences tend to change a lot, it all depends on the work I'm doing. I really enjoy looking for my own references in everyday places, mainly on the street. I also really like going to museums and based on that, being able to complement it with my own imagery.”
In this video lesson Matías Prado addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Journaling for Illustration . Learn to create original, vibrant illustrations from the experiences, notes, and sketches in your journal.
Partial transcription of the video
“influences In this lesson I will show you some of my main influences. I'm going to show you the work of William Grill, which for me has been very important in the technique of colored pencils. When I discovered your work, I was very interested in your way of communicating and how it transmitted with few colors the shape of his characters, who are very small, the irregular line that it has, the way to charge the pencil in some areas and in other sectors only work with lines, and also blank spaces. That was calling me a lot of attention to be able to know another way of how the pencil was wor...”
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Course summary for: Creative Journaling for Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Matías Prado
A course by Matías Prado
Matías Prado is a freelance illustrator who creates from his workshop in Santiago de Chile, collaborating with a variety of brands on diverse projects. He loves putting all his ideas down on paper, more specifically in sketchbooks, because they give him the creative freedom to unabashedly explore his imagination.
He's built a successful career in illustrated advertising by working with big-name brands such as Adidas, Vans, GMO, Faber-Castell, Peugeot, and more. He has participated in exhibitions and displayed his illustrations in cities around the world, including Santiago de Chile, Madrid, Barcelona, Bologna, and Buenos Aires. In 2018, he published his first children's book De Cuento en Cuento with the company Amanuta.
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