Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories
Who Is Mojo Again?
A course by Mojo Wang , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Who Is Mojo Again?
Overview
“Let's start at the top! Here I will tell you how I self-taught myself how to use Photoshop, how I struggled to find a job in the publishing industry, and then jammed my way into the illustration industry and became a published illustrator! Hopefully, this journey can inspire yours and give you ideas.”
In this video lesson Mojo Wang addresses the topic: Who Is Mojo Again?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories. Learn to transform narratives into meaningful digital art inspired by everyday life through color, line work, layers, and light.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Who Is Mojo Again? Hi there, I'm Mojo Wang, your Domestika teacher. I'm an illustrator who lives in New York City right now. I have been drawing since I was a little kid, a five-year-old. My mother sent me to learn how to draw to help me to be patient so that I can sit in a classroom without being a bad kid. Little did she know I fell in love with drawing. Then when I was in college majoring in Industrial Engineering, I immediately realized that was not for me. I never went to art school till that point. I didn't know how to make money by simply drawing, so I tried hard to get internships...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration
Mojo Wang
A course by Mojo Wang
Mojo Wang is a self-taught illustrator from China who is currently based in New York City. He started his career as a freelancer before working as a photo editor at ELLEMEN magazine in China. Yearning for more, he moved to New York to study a fine arts masters at SVA, where he redefined his style and learned the value of storytelling through images. Since then, he’s continued to hone his skills and experiment with techniques to grow as an artist, while striking a balance between making a living and enjoying his craft.
The bold colors, sharp linework, and engaging messages in his illustrations have led him to work with major brands like Nike and Kiehl's, as well as a variety of magazines including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Economist, Billboard Magazine, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal. He has also received multiple awards from the Society of Illustrators and the AI-AP.
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