Surrealist Illustration Inspired by Nature
Draw Without Looking
A course by Marco Mazzoni , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Draw Without Looking
Overview
“Here I'll show you a fun exercise that may seem strange, but it is useful to allow your hand to work free from your eye.”
In this video lesson Marco Mazzoni addresses the topic: Draw Without Looking, which is part of the Domestika online course: Surrealist Illustration Inspired by Nature. Use colored pencils to illustrate animals and natural elements with mood and symbolism.
Partial transcription of the video
“Draw Without Looking In this lesson I will show you how to draw without looking. It's a strange thing and this is really useful for you and it was useful for me to retake the confidence from drawing and from my hand. I need to play a lot with my hand to understand how my hands can do things without looking. I stole this kind of technique from an illustrator friend of mine, really famous, that works a lot in front of the mirror. Every day he gets up and stays in front of the mirror and tries to draw himself without looking at what he drew. So I take this kind of work and this kind of techniq...”
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Course summary for: Surrealist Illustration Inspired by Nature
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Colored Pencil Drawing, Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Marco Mazzoni
A course by Marco Mazzoni
Marco Mazzoni’s passion for drawing began at the age of five, when he would sketch on any piece of paper he could find while waiting for his father to finish work at the paper mill. Experimenting with the boundaries of fine art has been a passion of Marco’s since he was a student. His artwork tells a compelling story, drawing inspiration from Sardinian mysticism and the plants and animals he sketched as a child.
Marco’s recent achievements include working on an illustrated version of the Hans Christian Andersen classic Poucette for the French publishing house Albin Michel Jeunesse, where he takes the reader on a captivating journey through his use of color and texture. His work is also exhibited in galleries and museums across Europe and North America.
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