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Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration

Influences

A course by Tania Yakunova , Illustrator

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Audio: English

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About the video: Influences

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you some of the main influences that have impacted my work and shaped me as an artist.”

In this video lesson Tania Yakunova addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration. Learn how to draw characters with personality by exploring shapes, movement, proportions, and scale to amplify their expressiveness.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Influences In this lesson, I’ll share with you some of the biggest influences that impacted my work and shaped me as an artist. I'm a big fan of avant-garde art and design from the 20th century. I love museums, and I try to go to the local museum in every city I visit. The first influence I want to talk about is Bauhaus. Bauhaus was an influential art and design movement that began in 1919 in Germany. They were rethinking art practices and wanted to bring art into everyday objects. I love everything they did from visual arts to furniture and architecture. The way they worked with geometri...”

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Course summary for: Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (253)
6518 students
4 units
15 lessons (2h 35m)
4 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

Tania Yakunova

A course by Tania Yakunova

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Illustrator

Tania Yakunova is an illustrator from Kyiv. As a child, she was always interested in drawing, inspired by her grandfather who was a professional artist. She began studying at art school at the age of 7, and after graduating from university, began working as a copywriter. Tania later went back to school to study design and discovered a love for illustration in particular, which she put into practice working in a motion design studio alongside freelance projects in everything from editorial illustration to packaging design.

Since then, she’s become a full-time freelancer and has exhibited her work in galleries in France, the US, Germany, Italy, and the UK. Tania has worked with brands like Coca-Cola, Google, Upwork, Penguin Random House, Amazon, Visa Gold, Yves Rocher, and Facebook. She also runs her own poster shop.