Zodiac Illustration: Creating A Unique Series
Personal Style and How to Find It
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: Personal Style and How to Find It
Overview
“Personal style is the illustrator’s trademark. Usually, it’s the result of your limitations combined with your strengths and you can find it by drawing a lot and making mistakes. It probably won’t stay the same over time, so you’ll discard old techniques and take on new ones as you grow as an artist. I’ll show you three horoscope sets I did in the past, to show you how my own style is permanently under construction. ”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: Personal Style and How to Find It, which is part of the Domestika online course: Zodiac Illustration: Creating A Unique Series. Use ancient horoscope symbols to illustrate a series that captures your style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Personal Style and How to Find It In this lesson we'll talk about personal style, the illustrator's brand, and how to use it for the task in hand. In the last lesson we talked about what makes a series a family, same technique, same size, similar color, similar composition. It also helps to use similar subjects. For example, in the zodiac, the Libra is the only dead object, and that makes it a bit more difficult to include. I will be thinking now of what idea, technique and composition I will use for my own zodiac, and so should you. This is a crucial point. If you go off in a direction tha...”
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Course summary for: Zodiac Illustration: Creating A Unique Series
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Adobe Photoshop -
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Digital Illustration, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Silja Goetz
A course by Silja Goetz
Silja has always loved to draw, and with the encouragement of her parents, she kept it up and decided early on that she wanted to become an illustrator. She studied Communication Design in Nüremberg while working as an illustrator for a magazine about animals for children, along with some work for magazines like Elle and Cosmopolitan.
Silja worked as a layout designer for Allegra Magazine (Germany) for over two years, where she learned to see illustration from an art director’s perspective. After deciding she wanted to create illustrations instead of working with the work of others, she took a leap of faith and moved to Spain, where she started working as a freelance illustrator.
She has worked with press clients like The New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, Outdoor magazine, and more, as well as on advertising projects for clients like Estrella Damm. Her book cover illustrations adorn the books of publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Gräfe und Unzer, and Doubleday.
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