Graphic Experimentation for Artistic Illustration
Completion 3
A course by Santiago Guevara , Illustrator and Painter
Joined May 2012
About the video: Completion 3
Overview
“You will learn how to put the finishing touches on illustration.”
In this video lesson Santiago Guevara addresses the topic: Completion 3, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Experimentation for Artistic Illustration . Create images with watercolors, acrylics, pastels and other techniques and illustrate pieces that bring a text to life .
Partial transcription of the video
“Ending I'll wait for the India ink that I just applied to dry and I'll give way to work with the greasy cakes. I'll do a couple more touch-ups with watercolor, because they start to emerge as you add other techniques. The ones you added first are asking for other things. It's time to use the cakes. I will use dry and greasy cakes to give some finishes to the illustration, which is already 80%. Here I will cut out a stain that I have next to put a leaf to this thicket on the left. Then I'll do it like this, with my hand. I'm going to give it the shape of that leaf. These textures seem very n...”
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Course summary for: Graphic Experimentation for Artistic Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Communication, Creativity, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Santiago Guevara
A course by Santiago Guevara
Illustrator Santiago Guevara graduated with a degree in graphic design from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, Colombia. He combines his work as a freelance illustrator–primarily for children's books and young adult literature–with a teaching position in the art department at the Pontifical Xavierian University.
He has collaborated with magazines, newspapers, publishing companies, and both national and international clients. To date, he has published and co-authored numerous books with a variety of writers and companies, including Corazón de león by Antonio Ungar, Los irlandeses by Jairo Buitrago, La gata sola by Carolina Sanín, Soy asesino y padre de familia by Fabio Rubiano, and Los 16 motivos del lobo by Amalia Moreno.
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