Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
About me
A course by Aljoscha Blau , Artist, illustrator and author
About the video: About me
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you how I became an illustrator first in the late Soviet Union, then in Germany after the political change.”
In this video lesson Aljoscha Blau addresses the topic: About me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache. Discover the versatility of gouache by combining basic and experimental techniques to develop your own illustration style.
Partial transcription of the video
“About me Hi! My name is Aljoscha Blau. I'm an illustrator and book author. I come from berlin, where I have lived for over 20 years. I was born in Russia, in Saint Petersburg, and I grew up there during the Soviet Union. I come from a family of artists, my mother was a fashion designer and so I've been drawing from a very early age, Painting, experimenting, paints and pencils grew up. My mother influenced me a lot because she has next to her sewing machines and patterns also drawn a lot. What particularly fascinated me she could off the cuff draw great portraits. She went to parents' meetin...”
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Course summary for: Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Aljoscha Blau
A course by Aljoscha Blau
Aljoschau Blau is an illustrator, author and lecturer in drawing and illustration. After the Wall came down, he left his hometown of Saint Petersburg to study art and illustration in Hamburg and now lives in Berlin. Children's and picture books are his specialty. He has either illustrated or written more than 60 works and strives to do justice to each book with an individual illustration style. For the most part, he remains true to his favorite medium, gouache painting.
What appeals to him about the genre of the picture book is the illustrator's special responsibility to translate content that previously only existed in abstract language into the visual. He sees his projects as intellectual adventures with room for surprises, the grotesque and humour. He often lets the details do the talking and invites the viewer to look around in peace. His books in cooperation with German and international publishers, including Peter Hammer, Aufbau, NordSüd and Bajazzo, have received numerous international awards such as the German Youth Literature Prize and the renowned BolognaRagazzi Award. In "Multitalent Gouache" he recorded his experiences and techniques for illustration with gouache in book form.
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