Creative Journaling for Illustration
Stick Pencils: Design Objects 2
A course by Matías Prado , Ilustrator
About the video: Stick Pencils: Design Objects 2
Overview
“I will teach you how to look for different objects to achieve different strokes. In addition, you will learn to play with colors to create spontaneity in your images.”
In this video lesson Matías Prado addresses the topic: Stick Pencils: Design Objects 2, 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
“Stick pencils Design objects Now is the time to start reviewing the objects we are going to draw. I recommend you make a Pinterest board, as I have it here. For me it is super necessary to search photographs related to different objects. I think that will help us much more to see the composition and to see the element as it is, more than if I start looking for an illustration from another illustrator, because he probably tries to imitate the same stroke, the color palette. So in this way, when looking at objects from designers or different creatives, my stroke will be in a very different wa...”
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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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