Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories
The Linework
A course by Mojo Wang , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: The Linework
Overview
“There are as many ways of making linework as there are artists. In this lesson, I will show you mine. I hope it will be inspiring or at least helpful, but I highly encourage you to figure out the method that feels more comfortable and speaks to you. Drawing is about fun and joy, and being your most natural self. If you find who you are as a creator, I will have succeeded here :).”
In this video lesson Mojo Wang addresses the topic: The Linework, 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
“ The Linework In the last lesson, I showed you how to define colors. In this lesson, we will work on the line. I know during the sketching stage I kept telling you to keep it loose, simple, and quick, but now, while we are moving to the linework, we need to keep it a little tighter. We need to spend a bit more time, be a bit more patient, and pay more attention to line creation because, at this stage, we are moving on to the final project that you will color inside the line that we will create in this class. Don't panic. It's easy, it's simple, and as I said before, anything you feel you l...”
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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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