Botanical Illustration: From Notebook to Print
Influences
A course by David Morales , Architect and Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Next, I am going to tell you about the influence that a book by my father had on my love for drawing as a tool for understanding.”
In this video lesson David Morales addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Illustration: From Notebook to Print. Learn how to transform the ink drawings in your sketchbook into colorful digital illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I’ll show you how a book of my father’s influenced my fascination with drawing as a tool for understanding. I grew up in a small town in Colombia before there was Internet, and the only window into the world that we had was my father’s library. Whenever I got bored, I grabbed a book. One time, I found a book I’d never seen before. It’s this one, called "América Pintoresca," and it narrates the voyage of some French explorers through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru at the end of the 19th Century. This book is unique because it has very little text, and, to the eyes of ...”
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Course summary for: Botanical Illustration: From Notebook to Print
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Areas
Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
David Morales
A course by David Morales
David Morales is a Colombian architect and notebook artist based between Barcelona and his hometown of Ibagué. It was in architecture school that he began drawing in his notebook, trying to understand the proportions and material quality of buildings that he found interesting. Gradually, these notebooks became an inseparable element of his travels and his architectural work.
In 2018, he started an art project called ""One Day One Drawing"" in which he depicts his surroundings, family, and concerns on a daily basis. He has also created book covers for the publishing house Planeta, Spain and for Taller Talante, Colombia.
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