Graphic Experimentation for Artistic Illustration
Digitization
A course by Santiago Guevara , Illustrator and Painter
Joined May 2012
Joined May 2012
About the video: Digitization
Overview
“It is not enough to have managed to make the illustrations we imagine on the drawing board. Now is the time to give them reproduction possibilities, and that begins by translating them into a digital format. ”
In this video lesson Santiago Guevara addresses the topic: Digitization, 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
“Digitization We are already reaching the end of the course and we face the challenge of converting our analog illustrations in print-ready files. That means files that are in JPG, TIFF or PDF format. For this we will use of a scanner and a computer with Photoshop, and our illustrations at hand. It happens a lot with analogous illustrations that are one size larger than the size of the scanner glass. This is the case with these. What will we do then? Digitize one half first, then the other half to assemble them later in the computer. We open the scanner, we put the illustration. I do not put...”
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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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