Stylized Portrait Painting with Gouache
About Me
A course by Davi Calil , Painter, Illustrator, and Comic Artist
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this class, I will talk about my trajectory. To learn to paint, I realized that I needed to improve my drawing: I went to work with illustration. In illustration, I realized that I needed to master visual storytelling, which led me to work with storyboards for animation and comics.”
In this video lesson Davi Calil addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Stylized Portrait Painting with Gouache. Learn contemporary painting techniques to create stylized portraits from start to finish.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, my name is Davi Calil, and I am an illustrator, comic book author and painting teacher. I've been drawing since before I learned to read and write. I always copied all the drawings from children's books and the comics I got when I was a kid. When I was about fifteen years old, I started doing caricatures and comic strips for my city's newspaper, which is Guararema, a small town in the interior of São Paulo. I didn't earn anything, but as my name appeared, my mother was very proud. I continued making caricatures and it was also at that time I started to dedicate myself to...”
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Course summary for: Stylized Portrait Painting with Gouache
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Category
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Areas
Gouache Painting, Painting, Traditional illustration

Davi Calil
A course by Davi Calil
Davi Calil is a painter, illustrator, and comic artist. He started to produce his first caricatures and comic strips for his town's (Guararema, São Paulo) local paper at the age of 15. He has self-published two works with Dead Hamster, the publishing house which he cofounded, titled Surubotron and Quaisqualigundum, and the latter won him the Troféu HQMIX in the Single-Issue Independent Publication category.
In addition to his creative career, Davi has over a decade's teaching experience and has run workshops in a number of different Brazilian cities. He was also a character designer for Cartoon Network's animated series Haunted Tales for Wicked Kids.
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