Introduction to Illustration of Characters with Gouache and India Ink
Draw from the absurd
A course by Andonella , Cartoonist and Illustrator
About the video: Draw from the absurd
Overview
“Returning to the concepts learned in the last lesson, from a list of absurd characters and situations, we will draw a character to put into practice what we have seen before and lose the fear of drawing.”
In this video lesson Andonella addresses the topic: Draw from the absurd, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Illustration of Characters with Gouache and India Ink. Learn to give personality to your creations through colour.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] In this lesson we are going to see a exercise that I enjoy lot when I want to draw things freely and make them things that make me laugh a lot and is that we have a list of characters that are icons of pop culture, animals or other things as well as that you can imagine and on the other side we have a list of situations that do not have anything to do with the characters that we have in the first column, what we're going do is that we're going to unite these characters with the situations randomly and let's start create funny characters. This is very useful for when you do not have ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Illustration of Characters with Gouache and India Ink
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Illustration -
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Adobe Photoshop -
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Character Design, Gouache Painting, Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration
Andonella
A course by Andonella
Self-taught artist Andonella has managed to make a name for herself in the Mexican illustration scene with her cheeky and colorful characters. Her work is full of portraits, inspired by real people and the scenes that arise from her imagination, characterized by humor and irreverence.
Her work has been published in different digital and print media such as Vice magazine, Juxtapoz, and Nylon, and in publishers such as Planeta, Penguin Random House, and Santillana. In addition, she made the graphic identity of the Mextilo, memoria de la moda mexicana characters, is co-author of the book #AmigaDateCuenta: una guía para la vida, has worked with Pictoline and has collaborated with different brands such as H&M, Nike, and Ponds.
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