Illustrating Mythological Characters
The computer: the illustrator's best friend
A course by Alfredo Cáceres , Ilustrador editorial
About the video: The computer: the illustrator's best friend
Overview
“In order not to waste a million pages, sometimes the computer is the best tool to give shape to ideas. In this lesson I will teach you how to create your sketch digitally.”
In this video lesson Alfredo Cáceres addresses the topic: The computer: the illustrator's best friend, 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
“The computer: the illustrator's best friend In this lesson I will show you how I make my digital sketches. Why digital? It's something that has taken me some time to refine. Being an illustrator many times I have to work only in digital and as a way to escape to the computer I started drawing only on paper and over time the two have been mixed, so much so that I like to paint on the computer as if I painted on paper and I like to paint on paper as if I painted on a computer. This process is necessary to me because through the computer I can save a lot of time of tracing and tracing images w...”
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Course summary for: Illustrating Mythological Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Alfredo Cáceres
A course by Alfredo Cáceres
Alfredo Cáceres' specialty is illustrations that tell horror or mystery stories. His creative process is marked by the constant mixture of objects and the game with proportions.
He has worked for clients such as Simon and Schuster, Zoink games, EA games, Square Inc and Mappin de Chile, making illustrations for video games, web pages, maps and books, always with a dark theme around.
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