Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
Opening Your Mind to Surrealism 2
A course by Kyle Ellingson , Illustrator
About the video: Opening Your Mind to Surrealism 2
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn how to take something out of context and put it in a new one to create new perspectives. Also, I will show you how every aspect of the drawing process and every decision you make has the ability to be interpreted as symbolic.”
In this video lesson Kyle Ellingson addresses the topic: Opening Your Mind to Surrealism 2, 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 PATTER FOR HAMMER This is the last piece I'll look at that has a visual synonym going on. I chose it because it was one of the simpler pieces I had done. It's that idea of the two-point surrealism where it's taking something out of context and putting it in a different context. This came about in considering what the opposite of an object was. I wanted to make a series of pieces where surrealism is hinged on opposites assuming one another's character or one another's personality. I started with a hammer because I was drawing many objects then and trying to ...”
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Course summary for: Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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