Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
Simplifying the World around You 2
A course by Kyle Ellingson , Illustrator
About the video: Simplifying the World around You 2
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to do an exercise of thumbnailing based on some pulled-out words to continue reducing the environment into symbols. ”
In this video lesson Kyle Ellingson addresses the topic: Simplifying the World around You 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
“ Simplifying the World around You We will start with a blank sheet of paper and I will do some thumbnailing based on the words that I've pulled out. For the sake of this exercise, I'll be doing three thumbnails. Usually, I would do this all mentally. I would give myself a week or two weeks and let it go on in the background where I know I will be doing a piece and what it will be about. I'm allowing myself to come up with and hallucinate images, compositions, and combinations that might stick out or might settle so when I come to the thumbnailing phase, I have one in mind that I will use. ...”
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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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