Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters
Mood Board
A course by Raúl Allén , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Mood Board
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you how to select the images you are going to work with, taking into account their legibility, expressiveness and the way to represent them in the drawings. Also, I will show you how to compose a mood board from which to select the color palette and the graphic elements that unify your project.”
In this video lesson Raúl Allén addresses the topic: Mood Board, 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
“mood board In previous lessons we did analysis exercises to learn to see. Now we will work on our final project. When working on the project we will take into account the use of references, the mood board, the aesthetics that we want to give it and the search for style. Because of my way of working, I like to use references for the subtleties they bring. Each person moves in a different way and I like to capture those kinds of gestures. I have used myself as a model on countless occasions to the point of loathing seeing myself on screen. After that I started working with different models th...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters
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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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- 18 lessons (3h 56m)
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- Audio: Spanish
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- Level: Beginner
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