Graphic Experimentation: From Concept to Illustration
Resignify the materials
A course by Aldo Jarillo Ramírez , Illustrator and Visual Artist
About the video: Resignify the materials
Overview
“Now I will show you how the materials themselves can become containers of meaning. You can even give new meaning to those that —apparently— have no value.”
In this video lesson Aldo Jarillo Ramírez addresses the topic: Resignify the materials, 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
“Resignify the materials In this unit we will see like playing and experimenting with the materials we will find new ways. Graphic paths that will show us the textures, but at the same time paths of meanings where the stain will acquire its own language. Throughout the course, as you have seen, we have been appropriating Both your own ideas and the ideas of others or from previous situations And now it's time to appropriate the materials. Something that I have learned over time is to think of the piece as a body, unlike something that would go in print. I'll show you how I approach the mater...”
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Course summary for: Graphic Experimentation: From Concept to Illustration
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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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