Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters
Live Drawing
A course by Raúl Allén , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Live Drawing
Overview
“Next, I will combine the practice of the previous exercises to achieve the ideal coordination between hand and eye. To do this, I will go out into the street to look for figures that I will have to capture in the few seconds in which they cross paths with me.”
In this video lesson Raúl Allén addresses the topic: Live Drawing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters. Discover how to draw urban characters using reference materials while exploring and developing your own personal style.
Partial transcription of the video
“live drawing In this lesson we will work with notebooks drawing live In previous lessons we trained the coordination of the hand with the drawings of rapid poses and sight training with blind contours. Now let's put the two things together. to work making notes faster and with moving subjects. For this exercise, you will have to sharpen your eyes much more. As with the quick poses where we try to capture the gesture, here we will not see that gesture still. We're going to have moves. Then you will look for the points where the figures stand the most. When you see someone talking on the phon...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters
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Areas
Character Design, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration
Raúl Allén
A course by Raúl Allén
Raúl Allen is an illustrator and comic artist from Valladolid, Spain, with a long-standing career in the industry. He studied fine art in Salamanca and later moved to Boston where he specialized in illustration and design. Raúl has worked on comics starring iconic characters such as Wonder Woman, Secret Avengers, Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist, and with writers including Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Warren Ellis, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, Vita Ayala, and Robert Venditti.
He has also collaborated with big names like Marvel, DC, Valiant, and Boom; on publications like The New York Times, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and Billboard Magazine; as well as adidas, Tiempo BBDO, CHINA, Vitruvio Leo Burnett, and many more in the advertising sector.
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