Digital Illustration with Japanese Ink Techniques

Getting Started

A course by Yohey Horishita , Illustrator and Art Professor

Illustrator and Art Professor. Baltimore, United States.
Joined September 2021
100% positive reviews (34)
1,551 students
Audio: English
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About the video: Getting Started

Overview

“Is a blank sheet intimidating? In this lesson, I will share how to use word and visual associations to search for gold. Later, you will be given a task to develop your own association! The most important thing is to relax and have fun! ”

In this video lesson Yohey Horishita addresses the topic: Getting Started, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration with Japanese Ink Techniques. Discover “tradigital” illustration by combining traditional techniques with digital tools to create contemporary artwork inspired by Japanese motifs.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Getting Started In the last lesson, you learned about my influences and how they impacted my illustrations. In this lesson, we will talk about how I develop my illustrations by using word association. Word association is very important to me because a lot of folks focus on the last stage of the illustration, the final product, but to me, illustration has two components, the conceptual ingredients, and the technical ingredients. Word association is such a big portion of this conceptual ingredient. This is the final ink drawing I've done for the project. I didn't come up with this in one se...”

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Course summary for: Digital Illustration with Japanese Ink Techniques

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (34)
  • 1551 students
  • 4 units
  • 19 lessons (3h 38m)
  • 4 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Digital Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration

Yohey Horishita

Yohey Horishita
A course by Yohey Horishita

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Illustrator and Art Professor

Yohey Horishita is a Japanese freelance illustrator and art professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He studied illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design, before moving to New York City for eight years, then later to Baltimore to teach.

He’s collaborated with publishers such as Penguin Random House and newspapers like The New York Times and Yomiuri Shimbun. Yohey has also participated in projects with The New York Metro, Canon, and Casio.


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Digital Illustration with Japanese Ink Techniques. Illustration course by Yohey Horishita

Digital Illustration with Japanese Ink Techniques

A course by Yohey Horishita
Illustrator and Art Professor. Baltimore, United States.
Joined September 2021
  • 100% positive reviews (34)
  • 1,551 students