Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories
Mood Boards and Inspiration
A course by Mojo Wang , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Mood Boards and Inspiration
Overview
“"Mood board" is a loose term here. When searching for inspiration and ideas related to my keywords, what I like to do is drag images from the internet into a folder. Here I'll show you the images I collected for my own project.”
In this video lesson Mojo Wang addresses the topic: Mood Boards and Inspiration, 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
“ Mood Boards and Inspiration In the previous lesson, I showed you how to decide on a topic for your illustration, and in this lesson, I’ll show you how to create a mood board and get inspiration. When it comes to creating a mood board, I normally go to Pinterest, Behance, or just use Google. Go to a website full of images where you can simply type a single word and then they give you feedback as images. Then you collect them from here and there and put them all in a folder. I'm showing you a PDF, but I normally put them in a folder. Don't go overboard overthinking about what image you want...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
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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