Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
My Influences
A course by Aljoscha Blau , Artist, illustrator and author
About the video: My Influences
Overview
“Out of the many artists that have influenced me since I was a child, I would like to introduce you to a few that I still draw a lot of inspiration from.”
In this video lesson Aljoscha Blau addresses the topic: My Influences, 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
“Influences Now I want to tell you what influenced me as an artist, as an illustrator. Like you, like all artists, I have a lot of inspiration. Even now. I have hundreds of artists that I meet every day which I also find interesting and some of which flows into my art. But I wanted to be in this course pick a few back when I was a young man or a student, most influenced my way of approaching illustration. And maybe these are not the names that everyone knows. This may also be more interesting than naming world-renowned artists. That's how I would start with artists who I know from my homelan...”
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Course summary for: Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
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Category
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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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