Artistic Illustration Techniques: from Concept to Drawing
Working the concepts
A course by Vicente Martí Solar , Illustrator and Visual Artist
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: Working the concepts
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk to you about the concepts, what they are, how they work, and the importance they have in our work. I will do some simple pencil and paper exercises that will help you better understand how to transform an idea into visual language. ”
In this video lesson Vicente Martí Solar addresses the topic: Working the concepts, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Illustration Techniques: from Concept to Drawing. Learn to build bridges between different artistic disciplines to create powerful illustrations based on a book, a film or a song.
Partial transcription of the video
“Working the concepts In this lesson I will teach you the easy way to develop some concepts so that they can later be translated into a final illustration. Before I will explain what the final work consists of. We are going to develop a concept, I'm going to extract it from a song but you could work it from other formats. The process will begin by reviewing the concept, which will then be transformed into a sketch and it will be taken to Photoshop, where we will work it digitally. There we could incorporate photographs, some textures, do color and composition work. Once the illustration is f...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Illustration Techniques: from Concept to Drawing
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Vicente Martí Solar
A course by Vicente Martí Solar
From an early age Vicente Martí felt extremely drawn to shapes and colors. He originally studied graphic design and went on to work in several advertising agencies, all the while building his personal catalog of illustrations. He later decided to go back to college to study art.
Through his collaboration with a Chilean magazine, he started getting job requests from other national media outlets, which led to working for bigger and bigger international clients. He has had the chance to collaborate with Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, CNN, Adweek, and even branch out to other industries like gastronomy and health.
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