Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
Sketching 1
A course by Kyle Ellingson , Illustrator
About the video: Sketching 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you the first steps of sketching the underdrawing of the project on a 22” x 14” panel. You will see how this size will give you a lot of room to play around with details and tell a story. ”
In this video lesson Kyle Ellingson addresses the topic: Sketching 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
“ Sketching In the last lesson, we did thumbnailing. In this lesson, we'll start sketching. One of the conditions of this project is that we'll work on a 14-inch × 22-inch panel. I chose this size because it correlates with a big project I did last year for a thesis project at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I came up with the idea to do 100 surreal drawings and I wanted them to share some similarities compositionally to feel like a single body of work. I somewhat arbitrarily, but through trial and error, found that this 14-inch × 22-inch size was something I felt comfortable with. I...”
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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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