Art Deco Style for Digital Illustration
What Will We Do in This Course?
A course by Mads Berg , Illustrator
Joined September 2020
About the video: What Will We Do in This Course?
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll discuss the final project of this course and how to bring some elements of Art Deco into a contemporary illustration. ”
In this video lesson Mads Berg addresses the topic: What Will We Do in This Course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Art Deco Style for Digital Illustration. Create elegant artwork in Illustrator using dynamic compositions and minimalist color palettes.
Partial transcription of the video
“What Will We Do in This Course? In this lesson we will define the final project and we will look at how we can bring in some Art Deco elements into a contemporary illustration. Although Art Deco is a decorative style, which uses a lot of lines and patterns and stuff that you put as a decoration on top, the base still has to be good, so that's why we'll be looking at some classic drawing techniques and working a lot with composition. Throughout this course, we will look at the components of Art Deco style. And to me that is the way that we treat image, text, and decoration equally. So, there...”
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Course summary for: Art Deco Style for Digital Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Fine Arts, Poster Design, Traditional illustration

Mads Berg
A course by Mads Berg
Mads Berg is a Danish illustrator with twenty years of experience in creating commercial illustrations. After studying at the Academy of Art and Design in Copenhagen, he started his illustrating career as a character designer and concept artist for a games studio. He set up his own studio in 2000 specialized in creating posters, brand illustrations, key visuals, editorial illustrations, cover art, and murals.
Mads has illustrated for clients such as Coca-Cola, Orangina, San Diego Zoo, Lego, Monocle, and Wired. His illustrations have been exhibited internationally and celebrated with awards such as "Best Danish Children's Comic" prize in 2010 and the Danish Design Prize in 2009. He also lectures at his former art school, the Academy of Art and Design in Copenhagen.
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