Expressive Mixed-Media Illustration: Find Your Creative Flow
Influences
A course by Yoyo Nasty , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll share some of the influences that inspired me to become an illustrator. ”
In this video lesson Yoyo Nasty addresses the topic: Influences , which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Mixed-Media Illustration: Find Your Creative Flow. Explore playful painting and collage techniques to create colorful works of art from your imagination.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I'll tell you a bit about my influences. I'll start with one of my earliest influences, which is Tove Jansson, because I read her "Moomin" books as a kid. Tove Jansson was an author, an illustrator, and a comic book artist. She created this imaginary world, but the characters are very reminiscent of characters in real life or characters that you can relate to, and that's something I was very inspired by. I love that there are these compositions with a lot of details to them, a lot of things going on, like all these little characters interacting with each other. Th...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Mixed-Media Illustration: Find Your Creative Flow
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Creativity, Gouache Painting, Painting, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Yoyo Nasty
A course by Yoyo Nasty
Yoyo Nasty is a Swedish-born artist and illustrator. She wanted to be an artist before she even knew it was a career option, and she went on to study for a master’s degree in fine art at Konstfack University of Arts. From there, Yoyo started working full-time as an illustrator, selling her original artwork and creating commissions for clients.
She’s collaborated with international brands like Klarna and worked on the print design for H&M’s Zara Larsson collection. She has led both solo and group exhibitions in Stockholm and won numerous awards from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Yoyo has been featured in publications including Paper Magazine, and she shares her designs with over 14K followers on Instagram.
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