Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories
Your Illustration Topic
A course by Mojo Wang , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Your Illustration Topic
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you my method for coming up with a topic for an illustration and breaking down texts into keywords. You should imagine that creating an illustration is like building a house: the keywords are the bricks of this house.”
In this video lesson Mojo Wang addresses the topic: Your Illustration Topic, 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
“ Your Illustration Topic In the last lesson, I talked about illustration as a visual essay and in this lesson, I'll talk about how to decide on your illustration topic. To find the right topic for your illustrations, there are a lot of different ways. Here, we'll talk about two ways. First, we break down the existing texts step by step and make small notes to help you create an illustration about it. Secondly, we create the illustration based on your experiences and story, and I'll help you to create a mind map to find your topics. Shall we start? Here is a text I prepared for you. It is f...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories
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Category
Illustration -
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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