Artistic Illustration Techniques: from Concept to Drawing
Digital composition
A course by Vicente Martí Solar , Illustrator and Visual Artist
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: Digital composition
Overview
“In this lesson I will teach you how to make the leap to the digital process. I will create a new file in Photoshop in which all the elements will coexist to create the composition of the project with them. ”
In this video lesson Vicente Martí Solar addresses the topic: Digital composition, 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
“Digital composition Now we will digitally work our project. The initial phase will consist of focusing on the composition. What we will do here is create a new file. 31 cm wide by 41 high, at 300 DPI, RGB. Okay. This file will be the beginning of our final project. Whenever I work, I like to leave by each edge of the document About 5 mm of excess. In this case it would be 5 up, 5 to the side, considering that the illustration could go to press. So it is good to have a little surplus. We leave 5 here and 5 here. So our useful area will be 30 x 40, what would this be. We are going to save our...”
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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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