Illustrating Mythological Characters

Overview

“The protagonist of this lesson will be the imagination. We are going to do some exercises where you will draw quickly to let your creativity fly and find interesting ideas.”

In this video lesson Alfredo Cáceres addresses the topic: Previous exercises: imagination and illustration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrating Mythological Characters. Learn the process of developing an illustration based on a myth, first using watercolors and then exploring digital techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“Previous exercises: imagination and illustration In this lesson we are going to talk about imagination, about how the images appear in your notebook, file, in your life. This is a subject that fascinates me. Talking about how they appear is super interesting. Many people, when they ask me how I imagine things, They think I'm like some kind of medium and that images only appear on paper. However, that is unnecessarily mythologizing the process. To imagine you have to turn your imagination on the page and so the page returns to you. For example, I draw a house and think: "What if the house ha...”

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Course summary for: Illustrating Mythological Characters

• Level: Beginner
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• 1271 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 18m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting