Spot Illustration: Depicting Freelance Life
Create a composition
A course by Francesco Poroli , Freelance Illustrator and Art Director
About the video: Create a composition
Overview
“In this lesson, we will lay out our commercials together, inserting them in a single graphic layout.”
In this video lesson Francesco Poroli addresses the topic: Create a composition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Spot Illustration: Depicting Freelance Life. Discover the essentials of spot illustration and learn to create an original series of images based on a brief.
Partial transcription of the video
“Create a composition We have reached the final stage. If usually the spot illustrations are sent to the customer which then takes care of paginating and managing them on its layout, we here, as a final project, we want to try to lay them out on a single layout for two reasons: the first, to finally see the story of our freelance illustrator all together; the second, why work on a single layout can offer you some food for thought, some topics that may come in handy in the future. To do this exercise, let's imagine a vertical layout with the aspect ratio of an A4. As always, in this design ph...”
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Course summary for: Spot Illustration: Depicting Freelance Life
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Adobe Illustrator -
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Art Direction, Creativity, Design, Digital Design, Digital Illustration, Sketchbook, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

Francesco Poroli
A course by Francesco Poroli
Francesco Poroli is a freelance illustrator and art director who lives in his hometown of Milan. After secondary school, he went on to study a modern literature degree at university, although he didn't finish the program. His true passion has always been drawing, an art form that he taught himself, and mastered, through daily practice since he was a child.
Over the course of his career, he has collaborated with brands like Facebook, Apple, Zalando, and Campari, and his illustrations have been featured in magazines and newspapers such as Wired, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Il Sole 24 Ore, and la Repubblica.
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