Retro Illustration: from Traditional Pencils to Digital Tools
Reinterpreting the human body
A course by Alice Des , Illustrator
About the video: Reinterpreting the human body
Overview
“People are at the heart of my illustrations. It is not the most obvious subject to draw and there are several techniques to get started. So here I will give you some tips to draw a human body simply.”
In this video lesson Alice Des addresses the topic: Reinterpreting the human body, which is part of the Domestika online course: Retro Illustration: from Traditional Pencils to Digital Tools. Let your creativity run wild by exploring Photoshop’s tools to create a retro and colorful illustration that reflects your style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Reinterpreting the human body In this lesson we will see how to reinterpret the human body in illustration. One of the subjects that I love to draw is the characters. We can translate graphically the human body in a more or less realistic way. I will suggest you discover my approach: simplify the different elements by breaking them down into geometric shapes. We can start from a photo that exists to reproduce the parts of the body. We start the sketch with a light colored pencil and then we will iron the elements of another darker. We start from this photo to draw the silhouette of a charac...”
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Course summary for: Retro Illustration: from Traditional Pencils to Digital Tools
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Alice Des
A course by Alice Des
After working for four years as an illustrators' agent, Alice Des set herself up as an independent artist. She has worked for Clit Revolution, a web series available on France.tv Slash, and the Manuel d'Activisme Féministe, by the same authors. She collaborates with the press (L'Obs, Les Echos, Milk, Dada, Causette) and brands (Adobe, Petrossian, Nicolas, Cluizel, Arte), as well as with the Slow Galerie in Paris where her work is exhibited and sold.
As a socially involved artist, Alice likes to work for projects that make sense. Her graphic universe oscillates between retro aesthetics and modern subjects, spontaneous drawing and the will to simplify, and digital tools and traditional techniques.
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