Imaginary Places: Draw, Paint, and Digitize on Photoshop
Finding Inspiration
A course by Francisco Fonseca , Illustrator and Artist
About the video: Finding Inspiration
Overview
“It's time to use your free time to build motivation and ideas! Walking around and learning about your surroundings is very important to create a solid artwork and to fulfill your creative potential. In this lesson, I will prepare you to explore your own taste and aesthetics. You will build up a folder of references to be used as triggers or direct icons to represent in your artistic creations. This will forever be a work in progress. ”
In this video lesson Francisco Fonseca addresses the topic: Finding Inspiration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Imaginary Places: Draw, Paint, and Digitize on Photoshop. Learn to draw an imaginary place by combing analog tools like watercolors, pencils, and a sketchbook with Photoshop to add vibrant texture .
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I will be telling you how I build my inspiration. Inspiration may sound like a very general concept, but in fact, there is ways to make it a little bit more reachable and more easy to process, at least in your mind. For me, what works best is just going outside and looking for reference, looking for inspiration, or just do walks and get Happy. For me, getting happy is really important because I think happiness really goes along with the workflow and with getting motivated to create new ideas on just new things. So for me going outside, looking around, getting inspired, looki...”
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Course summary for: Imaginary Places: Draw, Paint, and Digitize on Photoshop
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Narrative, Sketching
Francisco Fonseca
A course by Francisco Fonseca
Francisco Fonseca is an illustrator born and raised in Paço de Sousa, a small village in Portugal. Since he was a child, he has shown great interest in representation through drawing, being strongly influenced by the spaces that surrounded him. Still, to this day, nothing has changed. After completing his master's in drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 2018, he dedicated himself full time to illustration.
In addition to several solo and group exhibitions like À mão (2019) and Lugares, he founded Porta 98, and is co-founder of Garden Skate Co. Francisco also dedicates himself to the investigation of myths and legends, and he tries to give a voice to the inhabitants of his city. Through his illustrations, he aims to build a bridge between different generations to rescue a cultural heritage from oblivion, which he considers to be brimming with richness.
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