Minimalist Geometric Portrait
Textures
A course by Maria Picassó i Piquer , Illustrator and Caricaturist
Joined January 2012
About the video: Textures
Overview
“I tell you how to apply textures and thus add personality and expressiveness to the project. ”
In this video lesson Maria Picassó i Piquer addresses the topic: Textures, which is part of the Domestika online course: Minimalist Geometric Portrait. Learn to create vector illustrations and convey the essence and expressivity of each character.
Partial transcription of the video
“Since we have worked with simple shapes, a simple color palette and a simple composition, we are going to enrich the theme of expressivity by textures, It's a resource that I like a lot so let's go there. I'm going to try a little bit the theme to add a background texture as already insinuated with that part of the "moodboard" of concrete or brick. And what I said before, try a little, it does not cost anything and see if, simply, I like it more or meets more the function of expressing or communicating or, in some way, refer us to the disk. So, then I have two pages, like this, we're going ...”
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Course summary for: Minimalist Geometric Portrait
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Character Design, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration

Maria Picassó i Piquer
A course by Maria Picassó i Piquer
Maria is a retired architect and full-time illustrator. Her constructivist caricature style has been internationally recognized and she has participated as a speaker in various European and American congresses. We can find her illustrations in a wide variety of media—from prog-rock band T-shirts to video games and books. She currently carries out a wide variety of private and public commissions for El País' ICON magazine and the Swiss magazine Zwölf. She has collaborated with the newspapers Ara, El Diario, and El Diario de las Américas, among others.
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