Album-Cover Design for Bands and Solo Artists
Sketch
A course by Alejandro Ros , Graphic Designer
About the video: Sketch
Overview
“You will learn how to make a sketch with the resources you have at hand. ”
In this video lesson Alejandro Ros addresses the topic: Sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Album-Cover Design for Bands and Solo Artists. Learn to design album covers by translating music into images, from the initial idea to the finished artwork.
Partial transcription of the video
“sketch Now let's move on to the sketch instance. I will tell you how it is done from the idea that we already had and how that realization of the sketch can modify the idea. You can make the sketch drawn or directly on the computer. For example, now I will show you the sketch I did for "Magistral", Miranda's album! I made this sketch on paper in a notebook that I have to jot down ideas and I don't know if you see that it looks quite similar to the original. All these ideas are then inside. For example, take a look at this. Magistral is a brand of detergents here in Argentina. That's why the...”
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Course summary for: Album-Cover Design for Bands and Solo Artists
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Category
Design -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Art Direction, Graphic Design
Alejandro Ros
A course by Alejandro Ros
Originally from Tucumán, Argentina, Alejandro Ros is a graphic designer. His specialty is album covers and he has collaborated with great bands and singers from all over the world such as Soda Stereo, Cerati, Fito Páez, Julieta Venegas, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Juana Molina, Miranda! Babasónicos, Spinetta, Mercedes Sosa, and Bersuit, to name just a few.
His work was awarded the 2002 Konex platinum award in the graphic design category, as well as 7 Gardel awards, and 3 Grammy awards for album covers. He also gets creative through videos, performances, installations, book covers, magazine covers, and even costume parties.
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