Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
Simplifying the World around You 1
A course by Kyle Ellingson , Illustrator
About the video: Simplifying the World around You 1
Overview
“Here I will discuss how to distill your surroundings into symbols, in order to start recasting them as narrative elements in your imagination. ”
In this video lesson Kyle Ellingson addresses the topic: Simplifying the World around You 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
“ Simplifying the World around You In the last lesson, I discussed opening your mind to surrealism. In this lesson, we'll look at simplifying the world around you in the symbols to start recasting them as narrative elements in your story. When I started planning out this lesson, I wanted to try to find the very base level of thought that went into my projects. At a first glance, looking back through my work, it was difficult to find a consistent principle. It's easy to think that work comes from images that pop into your mind and that you might feel emotionally drawn to. Over time you're so...”
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Course summary for: Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
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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