Surrealist Illustration: Draw Compelling Stories
How to Keep Evolving
A course by Kyle Ellingson , Illustrator
About the video: How to Keep Evolving
Overview
“Now I’ll discuss ways I keep myself curious about creating personal work, for example, reading widely, watching films, and even looking into random subjects as an influence. ”
In this video lesson Kyle Ellingson addresses the topic: How to Keep Evolving, 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
“ How to Keep Evolving Previously, we saw how to export your file. In this lesson, I'll talk about how to keep evolving in your work. One thing I like to do to stay motivated is to occasionally print out my work. Since a lot of my finished work is digital, I don't often get to have something tangible that I can hold, look at, and keep on a shelf. This is a first example of something I did for myself. Granted, this was part of a fulfillment of a master's program, but it stayed with me as an item on my shelf that I get to pull out, look at, and have a real collection of my own work. It's fun ...”
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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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