Artistic Naturalistic Drawing with Pencil
Influences
A course by Iván Salamanca , Visual Artist and Botanical Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I will tell you about my influences, varied and extremely disparate: cartoons as a child, books as a teenager, an encounter with art. It's all part of who I am as an artist. ”
In this video lesson Iván Salamanca addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Naturalistic Drawing with Pencil. Learn to make drawings inspired by nature in a realistic and creative way using graphite pencils.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Now I'm going to tell you about my influences. I think I am a person who enjoys many different things and this is what has influenced my work. My first meeting in my adolescence was with Alphonse Mucha, Czech artist and illustrator of the early 20th century. He is the highest representative of "art nouveau". I was fascinated with his work. The subtlety and perfection in his drawing of the female figure, combined with organic and decorative elements, it has been the greatest influence on my work. In these illustrations we can see how Mucha involves organic elements in a very synth...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Naturalistic Drawing with Pencil
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing

Iván Salamanca
A course by Iván Salamanca
Iván Salamanca is a visual artist and botanical illustrator specialized in graphite pencil drawings. His work has been featured at fairs and in galleries across Mexico, Colombia, the United States, Germany, and Japan.
He's passionate about plants, animals, and flowers and capturing their beauty through drawing. His work is the embodiment of order, where everything has a place and a process, and aims to recreate that which is found in nature.
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