Creative Journaling for Illustration
Formats and papers
A course by Matías Prado , Ilustrator
About the video: Formats and papers
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you the different formats of notebooks that exist, in addition, I will tell you which ones are my favorites and why I always use them and carry them with me.”
In this video lesson Matías Prado addresses the topic: Formats and papers, 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
“Formats and papers In this lesson I am going to teach you the different formats of notebooks, but first I am going to show you what we will do in this course. We are going to start working on a mother notebook. From there, we will start to translate different ideas looking for references and discovering different materials, such as colored pencils, watercolors, markers and collage. Then we will experiment and look for the referents What do we like most about our illustrations? and we will turn them into themed notebooks. With the thematic notebooks we are going to select the drawings that w...”
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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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