Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions
Brainstorming
A course by Mary Cagnin , Illustrator
About the video: Brainstorming
Overview
“Based on the mood board we created in the last unit, let's now choose a theme for our project. I'll show you how I organize my ideas in text or image form as they arise.”
In this video lesson Mary Cagnin addresses the topic: Brainstorming, 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
“brainstorming In this class, we will develop brainstorming on top of the initial mood board. Now it's time to work on brainstorming. Brainstorming is nothing more than putting it on paper all the ideas we have for this project, whether they are design ideas, or even concept ideas, written things, ideas. The idea is that you put it on paper, it can be either normal or digital, as in the notebook, if you prefer. I vary a lot, many times, if I have the notebook close by, I prefer to make these initial notes in the notebook, to facilitate, but if I'm already working on the computer, I open a ne...”
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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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