Creative Sketchbooking: Explore and Play with Illustration
Hirameki: an imagined garden
A course by Alejandra Acosta , Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Hirameki: an imagined garden
Overview
“In this lesson we will fill notebook pages with flowers, plants and insects with invented shapes, colors and textures.”
In this video lesson Alejandra Acosta addresses the topic: Hirameki: an imagined garden, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Sketchbooking: Explore and Play with Illustration. Create a professional, illustrated idea log and discover your artistic vision through playful exploration and creative exercises.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hirameki: an imagined garden In this lesson we are going to play with watercolor stains to create a garden. The idea is that this garden has different species, can have flowers, insects, plants, and that it becomes a colorful space inside your notebook. The name of this lesson says "Hirameki: An Imagined Garden". Hirameki is a Japanese concept which can be translated as flash of inspiration and the idea is that you use these pages as a flash of inspiration to create incredible and colorful botanical universes. For these exercises we are going to work with watercolor and the idea is to creat...”
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Course summary for: Creative Sketchbooking: Explore and Play with Illustration
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Areas
Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketchbook, Watercolor Painting
Alejandra Acosta
A course by Alejandra Acosta
Alejandra Acosta is a Chilean illustrator known for her undaunted exploration of visual techniques and languages in her art and the books she illustrates. After earning a degree in graphic design, Alejandra spent several years working as an art director before deciding to pursue her passion for illustration full time.
With more than a decade of experience, she's found success as a professional illustrator and has an extensive portfolio showcasing her diverse illustration styles. She has collaborated with many of the big names in publishing including Jekyll & Jill, Zorro Rojo, Barbara Fiore, Amanuta, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Sexto Piso, Carthusia, Loqueleo, Planeta, and Random House.
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