Graphic Experimentation: From Concept to Illustration
Dissect the text
A course by Aldo Jarillo Ramírez , Illustrator and Visual Artist
About the video: Dissect the text
Overview
“Now you must select a text with which you are going to work on your course project, whether it is from an editorial commission, a selected text or your own. I'll show you how to approach it to find the main idea.”
In this video lesson Aldo Jarillo Ramírez addresses the topic: Dissect the text, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Experimentation: From Concept to Illustration. Learn to interpret a text through the lens of your own life experiences and craft it into an artistic illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“dissect the text In this lesson we will select a text with which you will work your final project. It may be an order that has come to you from before, a text that you select from somewhere or even one that you write. I'll show you how to dissect it and get the main idea out. First we will make a brief tour of different texts that came to me, going through the essay, the story, an assignment and I'll show you how they went from being a text to an image. The first of them is an essay. It is called "The exposed device". It deals with art criticism. The truth is that it was a very dense text a...”
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Course summary for: Graphic Experimentation: From Concept to Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Collage, Editorial Illustration, Fine Arts, Traditional illustration

Aldo Jarillo Ramírez
A course by Aldo Jarillo Ramírez
Aldo Jarillo is an illustrator and visual artist. Although he started out as an editorial designer, his interest in imagery soon led him to illustration and, from there, he immersed himself fully in the art world. He is passionate about the potential dialog between different elements and the puzzle of turning an idea or emotion into an artwork.
Throughout his career he has collaborated with The New Yorker, Letras Libres, and El Malpensante. He also won the International Illustration Biennial in Ukraine.
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