Zodiac Illustration: Creating A Unique Series
Drawing by Hand 1
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: Drawing by Hand 1
Overview
“Time to get our hands dirty (at least a little)! In this lesson I'll get out the pencils and my trusty eraser and will show you how I tackle portraits in general and hair and eyes specifically. Don’t be daunted: I’ll also show you how to cheat a little with a lightbox, always following my motto: It’s the outcome that counts. ”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: Drawing by Hand 1, 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
“Drawing by Hand Now to the fun part, if you ask me, or to the boring part, if you ask most other people, laboriously drawing with pencils I will draw each woman, each zodiac sign and some props for each of the women. All of this on separate papers for later assembly in Photoshop. I will use the image material I've googled before as a reference and for now it will all stay in black and white. Also I use a simple A4 paper for this. For the purpose of this course I will only work on a few of these illustrations because I don't want to bore you to death. Also for the purpose of this lesson I ha...”
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Course summary for: Zodiac Illustration: Creating A Unique Series
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
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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