Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
Listmaking: Harvesting Narrative Elements
A course by Kyle Ellingson , Illustrator
About the video: Listmaking: Harvesting Narrative Elements
Overview
“Referring to the techniques discussed in the "Materials and Surrealism" unit, I will explain the premise of our final project. “You vs. Something in Your Living Space”. The prompt is a step-by-step guide through my process and will serve to replicate, for you, the major questions I ask myself in developing my work from initial brainstorm to final artwork. ”
In this video lesson Kyle Ellingson addresses the topic: Listmaking: Harvesting Narrative Elements, 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: Harvesting Narrative Elements In the last lesson, we formulated our conflict, and in this lesson, we'll focus on harvesting narrative elements from the listmaking we did. Out of our nine-step process, we've reached step four. Here is the list from the last lesson, and at the end here I've added A and B. A was the item that we zeroed in on and B was a formulation of the obstacle that we faced in fulfilling the desire listed above. What you wrote in field B will be a formulation of the problem you're facing in this situation. For me, the problem is I can't help checking the gas ...”
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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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