Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
Opening Your Mind to Surrealism 1
A course by Kyle Ellingson , Illustrator
About the video: Opening Your Mind to Surrealism 1
Overview
“Now, I’ll guide you through a number of my own works and discuss my approach to surrealism, before explaining how my methods can be applied to anyone’s practice. ”
In this video lesson Kyle Ellingson addresses the topic: Opening Your Mind to Surrealism 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories. Use intuitive journaling to unlock new approaches to drawing and transform everyday objects into memorable illustrations that tell a story.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Opening Your Mind to Surrealism In the last lesson, I showed you the materials I'll use for this course. Now, I'll talk more in depth about opening your mind to surrealism. Let's begin. OPENING YOUR MIND TO SURREALISM The first thing I want to talk about is dreaming on paper. I get a lot of energy out of thinking about surrealism as a type of waking dream. I try to make art that is spontaneous and dynamically interpretable as dreams. What I mean by dynamically interpretable is that I want the viewer to engage with my artwork in the way that they might engage with one of their dreams, if t...”
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Course summary for: Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
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Digital Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Narrative
Kyle Ellingson
A course by Kyle Ellingson
Kyle Ellingson is a freelance illustrator living in Brooklyn, New York. He first started drawing as a child, encouraged by his grandfather, a printmaker, and his uncle, a visual effects artist. He went on to study creative writing and philosophy at college and working at bookstores in his spare time when he discovered the possibilities of visual narrative. Kyle later attended the illustration practice program at Maryland Institute College of Art, creating a final project that attracted his first freelance editorial jobs.
Since then, he’s been featured in by a number of notable blogs and created illustrations for clients including New York Magazine, The New York Times, Billboard, Financial Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker.
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