Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
Thumbnailing
A course by Kyle Ellingson , Illustrator
About the video: Thumbnailing
Overview
“Here I will show you how to translate the narrowed list of visual elements into shapes and place them in a composition. ”
In this video lesson Kyle Ellingson addresses the topic: Thumbnailing, 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
“ Thumbnailing In the last lesson, we harvested our narrative elements, and in this lesson, we will be doing some thumbnailing. I want to start by reiterating that in the last section we did a lot of list-making and brainstorming. I don't want that process to stop. It's not that we arrived at these elements and these are the only things we'll allow ourselves to imagine moving forward, but to begin to visualize the project, this is a good starting point. I will start with a single thumbnail. I usually do one thumbnail for an individual project like this. It's something personal. I don't like...”
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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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