Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions
Organizing Your Referrals Panel
A course by Mary Cagnin , Illustrator
About the video: Organizing Your Referrals Panel
Overview
“Here I'll talk about how to research and organize your references according to your interests and personal tastes to help you get the job done.”
In this video lesson Mary Cagnin addresses the topic: Organizing Your Referrals Panel, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions. Learn to combine digital art and hand-drawn textures to create an impactful illustration that tells an original story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Organizing your referrals panel Searching for references is essential in every artist's work. This survey is important because it will help you to choose a path. From choosing the elements you will use in your illustration, until you define a style that you will use. And just as important as doing this research is knowing how to organize your references. I like to keep my references always in the same place, to have where to turn when I need them. I often save a reference that I liked and I'll only use it later on, in another project. That's why organizing is so important. I like to organiz...”
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Course summary for: Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Design, Digital Painting, Narrative, Traditional illustration

Mary Cagnin
A course by Mary Cagnin
Mariana Cagnin studied visual arts at São Paulo State University (UNESP) and has been an illustrator and comic artist for over a decade. She has illustrated books and magazines for publishing houses including Globo, Abril, and MOL and is also the author of the Vidas Imperfeitas comics as well as the award-winning Black Silence and Bittersweet. Since 2013, she has been creating her own social media content and has a YouTube channel with over 300K subscribers to date.
She has also given in-person and online courses for a variety of Brazilian institutions, including the private nonprofit SESC and arts centers, in which she shared her own teaching methods. In 2017, she received a Globo award for best theme design (Casa & Jardim) and was invited by the Brazilian embassy to participate in the Gothenburg Book Fair in Sweden.
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