Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
Listmaking: Formulating Your Conflict
A course by Kyle Ellingson , Illustrator
About the video: Listmaking: Formulating Your Conflict
Overview
“In this lesson, we will dive into the project prompt. I will guide you in brainstorming a list of dysfunctional objects in your living spaces before narrowing in on a short, focused set of elements that will form the narrative basis of the surreal artwork. ”
In this video lesson Kyle Ellingson addresses the topic: Listmaking: Formulating Your Conflict, 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
“ Listmaking: Formulating Your Conflict In the last lesson, we simplified the environment into symbols. In this lesson, we'll start with listmaking. This lesson will cover the first three steps of a nine-step process to coming up with the concept for your project. When I was coming up with this prompt, I wanted something that was going to be relatable wherever you were in the world. I figured we all have living spaces and someplace we go to make art. I want us to start there. This prompt will be based on those seven archetypal conflicts that I talked about in an earlier lesson. This is a 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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