Zodiac Illustration: Creating A Unique Series
Drawing by Hand 3
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: Drawing by Hand 3
Overview
“My portraits are done and it is my pleasure to show you the outcome. I am going to be critical of them because it is important to identify the areas that need a touch-up. ”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: Drawing by Hand 3, 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 I'm going to show you all the portraits of all the 12 women I did. First, here we have Catalina la Grande or Catherine the Great. As you see I'm never able to center the illustration in the paper and it's also very dirty. I don't really love my originals. That's what Photoshop is for, to clean up all the mess I make, later. This is a profile, and I think it's a good thing to change from frontal illustration to profile from time to time in this sequence of mine, just to keep things going and to create a certain rhythm. The interesting thing here is maybe the pearls, to ma...”
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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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