Illustration of Characters with Style
Influences
A course by Alberto Montt , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“It is difficult to speak only of some influences in our professional life since everything that surrounds us ends up generating stimuli that affect our work. Beyond this, there are enormous teachers who can exceptionally express their ideas in their drawings. Here I tell you about some of them. ”
In this video lesson Alberto Montt addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration of Characters with Style. Learn an efficient method for creating characters with Illustrator and Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“Well, now I'm going to talk to you about my influences. I have always found it difficult reduce influences, for example, to the scope of the graph because in one way or another I feel that many times the colors that we choose can answer more to the colors that my granny used to dress than those referents or great illustrators that we have seen in life. The same I feel that out there the colors of the typical dish of your country may be closer to you than the books of Chris Wert that you bought on a trip to New York. However, since we are here, I am going to talk about those little things th...”
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Course summary for: Illustration of Characters with Style
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Comic, Traditional illustration
Alberto Montt
A course by Alberto Montt
Alberto Montt was born in Quito, Ecuador, and began his career as an illustrator in Chile. In his own words, he has 45 years of experience as an illustrator but has only been doing it professionally for 20.
His work is well-known throughout Latin America thanks to his blog, Dosis Diarias, where he has published a cartoon every day since 2006. With more than 120K visits, his blog has received multiple recognitions, including the award for best Spanish-language blog by Deutsche Welle. This success has led him to illustrate more than 45 books, collaborate with major brands, participate in live shows with singer Kevin Johansen and, above all, be one of the authors of the Argentine publishing house Ediciones de la flor, known for publishing cartoonists like Quino, Fontanarrosa, and Liniers.
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