Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
Influences
A course by Sveta Dorosheva , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I will present some of my favorite artists who have greatly impacted me: Peter Breugel the Elder, Albrecht Durer, Kay Nielsen, and Harry Clarke. I will also talk a little about the most genius illustrated book ever created, in my opinion. I strongly encourage you to look it up for huge inspiration! ”
In this video lesson Sveta Dorosheva addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink. Explore creative inking techniques to bring to life magical illustrations for fairy tales that capture the culture, time, and magic of the story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I'll tell you about some of the artists that have influenced my style and whom I admire a lot. First, I'll name Pieter Bruegel the Elder. This artist taught me not to be afraid to be funny and weird. It's ok to be funny and weird. He can be entertaining even when he's treating very gruesome subject matter like his "Seven Deadly Sins" engravings. I was especially struck by his engravings. The first time I saw it, I was mesmerized for hours by what was going on there. It's like a Marvel movie squeezed into one scene. Pieter Bruegel is a wonderful observer of human n...”
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Course summary for: Fairy-Tale Illustration with Pen and Ink
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Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Ink Illustration
Sveta Dorosheva
A course by Sveta Dorosheva
Sveta Dorosheva is a Ukrainian illustrator, currently living in Israel. She works in book illustration and narrative art for magazines and brands, which are deeply influenced by myth and fairy tales. She is a self-trained artist, and started her professional career by writing and illustrating her own book, “The Land of Stone Flowers”. Originally published in 2014, it was nominated for the National Bestseller award in 2016, and has also been translated into more than five languages.
Her work is hand-drawn on paper, merging a lot of mythical and traditional motifs from various cultures with contemporary ideas. She’s worked with numerous publishing houses to create art for books, including HarperCollins, Penguin Books, Macmillan, Disney-Hyperion, Usborne, and Chronicle Books. Sveta has also created artwork for movies, including The True Adventures of Wolfboy, commercial art for advertising agencies like JWT New York or D8 studio in Glasgow, and editorial pieces for magazines like The New Yorker and The LA Times.
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