Artistic Mixed-media Collages
Digital vs Analog Tools
A course by Petra Zehner , Illustrator and Collage Artist
About the video: Digital vs Analog Tools
Overview
“You will see the different digital and analogue tools you will need to create digital mixed media collages. ”
In this video lesson Petra Zehner addresses the topic: Digital vs Analog Tools, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Mixed-media Collages. Create unique collages that are both vintage and contemporary, and blur the line between traditional art and digital illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'm going to tell you a little bit about the tools and software I'm using for my collages. I use both digital and analog tools. Digital. I work mainly with Photoshop and illustrator for the purpose of this course, i'm going to use only Photoshop. Photoshop is a software that you can learn overnight, but it's not super complicated either. When people hear Photoshop, they automatically think of photos, color correction, editing, spots and stuff like that from people's faces. but it's actually a great tool to create digital illustrations. Photoshop has its own brushes that are ...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Mixed-media Collages
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Collage, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration

Petra Zehner
A course by Petra Zehner
Petra Zehner is a German illustrator and collage artist. After studying literature and linguistics in Berlin, Petra experimented with writing, photography, and illustration, which led her to study graphic design in London. Since then, she has moved back and forth between Germany, the UK, Malaysia, and Singapore, before basing herself in Paris. During this time, Petra rediscovered collage as a medium that combines all of her interests. For Petra, collage is also a metaphor for life as a whole, and the way we collect, mix, match, and make things our own.
Petra discovered that she didn’t want to work exclusively with traditional collage methods and created her own combination of analog and digital elements. She is the creative director and founder of Paris Collage Collective, a community that sets regular creative challenges to connect local and global artists, and encourage creative expression that goes “further than likes and shares on social media platforms”. Petra has also worked on various art projects, including Elleree, her own series of 365 images based on the same photo of an unknown woman taken in the early 1900s. She says that having to try new things repetitively in such a way pushes her to look at things with different eyes
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