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Art Deco Style for Digital Illustration

First Draft

A course by Mads Berg , Illustrator

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Audio: English, French, Italian, Portuguese

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About the video: First Draft

Overview

“In this lesson, I will walk you through my sketching process. ”

In this video lesson Mads Berg addresses the topic: First Draft, 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

“In this lesson, we'll be building up our first sketch. However, before we Move on to paper. We will do a bit of research. just to Get in the mood. for the task. Normally I start by making a Google image search. just so to get an overview of what's the topic about. So I'm in this case writing Art Deco, Cocktail and see what comes up So by looking at this search result. we quickly get a sense of the colors and the aesthetics and the whole imagery that we'll be dealing with. Don't drown in these images. Don't try to be an expert. After all, we are dealing with commercial art which has a really...”

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Course summary for: Art Deco Style for Digital Illustration

Level: Beginner
97% positive reviews (478)
13166 students
4 units
16 lessons (2h 23m)
3 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Illustrator
Areas
Digital Illustration, Fine Arts, Poster Design, Traditional illustration

Mads Berg

A course by Mads Berg

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Illustrator

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.