Creative Illustration: Play with Unexpected Materials
Arte-factos: creating guerilla brushes
A course by Adolfo Serra , Illustrator
About the video: Arte-factos: creating guerilla brushes
Overview
“Any object, texture or thing can be used to paint and create! Let your imagination run wild and create your guerilla brushes. ”
In this video lesson Adolfo Serra addresses the topic: Arte-factos: creating guerilla brushes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Illustration: Play with Unexpected Materials. Awaken your creativity with everyday items, from coffee to feathers or an apple, and create illustrations freely and without judgment..
Partial transcription of the video
“Art-ifacts: Creation of Guerrilla Paintbrushes In this lesson I want to talk a bit about how I create my own drawing tools or what I call “art-ifacts,” very homemade tools that work to create textures, weird brush strokes, and that don’t offer as much control as a traditional paintbrush. But they do create effects, textures, or completely different strokes. I have a bunch of sticks here that I collected outdoors on my walks through the woods. I always try to grab branches and sticks from the ground and not destroy plants. I also have some feathers that I found on the ground. There’s steel w...”
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Course summary for: Creative Illustration: Play with Unexpected Materials
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Areas
Creativity, Fine Arts, Painting, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Adolfo Serra
A course by Adolfo Serra
Adolfo Serra (Teruel, 1980) studied Advertising and Public Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid, but it wasn't long before he decided to follow his childhood passion for drawing by reconnecting with pencils and watercolors at the Escuela de Arte 10 in Madrid. Since then he's been no stranger to colors, papers, textures, and stories.
He loves to experiment with techniques, play with materials, and, above all, tell stories with his art. He considers himself a trailblazer of blank pages who maps uncharted territory with illustrations for children and young adults.
His illustrations have been featured at the Bologna Children's Book Fair (Italy), Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (Slovakia), Sharjah Children's Book Fair (United Arab Emirates), Ibero-American Illustration Contest (Mexico), CJ Picture Book Awards (Korea), and the International Exhibition of Illustrations for Children in Sàrmede (Italy).
His wordless version of Little Red Riding Hood has been published in Spain, Germany, France, and Mexico, and has won numerous awards. He also won the 19th A la Orilla del Viento Award for illustrated album from the Fondo de Cultura Económica.
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