Illustration: Find Your Signature Style
Photo Research
A course by Vidam , Illustrator, Painter, and Muralist
About the video: Photo Research
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll explain how to come up with ideas and write them down for later reference. I will also show you how to find inspiration in general and how to expand found ideas through targeted research.”
In this video lesson Vidam addresses the topic: Photo Research, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration: Find Your Signature Style. Learn to observe and reinterpret animals to create experimental illustrations that combine digital and analog techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“photo research In this lesson I will show you my photo research on the subject of animals in the city, animals in the forest and everything that goes with it. The environment, the park that we want to draw, the clothes and above all, of course, the forest animals. When it comes to ideas for free illustrations or works of art, I personally have a long list with ideas that come to me spontaneously, when I go shopping or when I'm out and about or on the toilet. I'll put them in a long list and every now and then, when there's time, I pick something which I then implement. Either as a painting ...”
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Course summary for: Illustration: Find Your Signature Style
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Street Art, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration

Vidam
A course by Vidam
Attila Szamosi, better-known as Vidam, is an illustrator and visual artist from Berlin. He enjoys painting large murals in situ as well as digitally illustrating them, and loves spending time working in his studio. He first discovered graffiti while studying communication design, and over the years has become more and more immersed in the art world, especially street art.
Since 2004, he's been working as a freelance designer and illustrator, and currently creates posters, flyers, and above all murals for clients like WeShare, Tetra Pak, Arte, and Puma. His personal pieces, which reflect on a diverse range of everyday topics, almost like a diary, are regularly exhibited across the globe.
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