Illustration Techniques to Unlock your Creativity
The pictorial languages
A course by Adolfo Serra , Illustrator
About the video: The pictorial languages
Overview
“How to choose a style for an illustration, story, story, design? What turns do I give? Why do I decide a specific style? In this lesson I tell you through my projects and illustrated books. ”
In this video lesson Adolfo Serra addresses the topic: The pictorial languages, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration Techniques to Unlock your Creativity. Create an artist’s portfolio and develop your own universe of pictorial resources.
Partial transcription of the video
“PICTORIAL LANGUAGES In this lesson I’m going to reflect on style in illustration, painting styles or your style as illustrators, as students of illustration, too. I'm going to tell you about my experience. I am a very malleable illustrator. I like changing styles. I like trying different techniques, I like trying to figure out what aesthetic or image works best with the text, book, or project I’m working on. Other professions are a lot more constant, secure, and boring than illustration. As illustrators, we have to experiment, try things, and find our own voices, as we saw with the referenc...”
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Course summary for: Illustration Techniques to Unlock your Creativity
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Areas
Creating with Kids, Creativity, Design, Fine Arts, Painting, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Adolfo Serra
A course by Adolfo Serra
Adolfo Serra (Teruel, 1980) studied Advertising and Public Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid, but it wasn't long before he decided to follow his childhood passion for drawing by reconnecting with pencils and watercolors at the Escuela de Arte 10 in Madrid. Since then he's been no stranger to colors, papers, textures, and stories.
He loves to experiment with techniques, play with materials, and, above all, tell stories with his art. He considers himself a trailblazer of blank pages who maps uncharted territory with illustrations for children and young adults.
His illustrations have been featured at the Bologna Children's Book Fair (Italy), Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (Slovakia), Sharjah Children's Book Fair (United Arab Emirates), Ibero-American Illustration Contest (Mexico), CJ Picture Book Awards (Korea), and the International Exhibition of Illustrations for Children in Sàrmede (Italy).
His wordless version of Little Red Riding Hood has been published in Spain, Germany, France, and Mexico, and has won numerous awards. He also won the 19th A la Orilla del Viento Award for illustrated album from the Fondo de Cultura Económica.
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