Imaginary Places: Draw, Paint, and Digitize on Photoshop
The Sketchbook as an Experimental Tool
A course by Francisco Fonseca , Illustrator and Artist
About the video: The Sketchbook as an Experimental Tool
Overview
“In this lesson, I will transform your impression of the sketchbook. By the end, you will appreciate it as a tool to play with ideas and learn how to truly see the world. I will show you how to create mood boards and clock into your imaginary universe, all within the confinements of your sketchbook. Finally, I will briefly model the sketching process using a combination of the pen and watercolors, by applying the basics of Urban Sketching you learned in the previous lesson. ”
In this video lesson Francisco Fonseca addresses the topic: The Sketchbook as an Experimental Tool, 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 show you how I use my sketchbook as experimental tool I will show you how I gather information, how I collect image, how I sketch them, what I use to do it. And basically, we're going to have a little tour to my sketchbooks to see the drawings that I make. And I will explain why I make them. So what I want to use my sketchbook for basically is to collect images that not only will inspire me, than to create my own image, my own imaginary image. But also to understand the places, to understand how they look, what they have. And just basically write a little bit about th...”
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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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