Character Sketchbook: Find Your Voice
Drawing with reference 1
A course by Carlos Sallas , Graphic Artist
About the video: Drawing with reference 1
Overview
“In this first part of the lesson, we are going to see what a reference is and how to use it to improve your drawings. We will start by identifying the basic shapes and key elements in an image. We will practice with a photograph from the film "Cronos" by Guillermo del Toro, breaking it down into simple elements to better understand its structure.”
In this video lesson Carlos Sallas addresses the topic: Drawing with reference 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Sketchbook: Find Your Voice. Create original drawings in your sketchbook and personalize you favorite fictional character with different exercises..
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we are going to see what a reference is. A reference is just an image that we use as a base to create something new. But here we are going to see how we can get more out of it. and use them to our advantage instead of them using us. For this exercise, we are going to use this photograph which is a scene from the movie Cronos by Guillermo del Toro, which is the first film he made, and where two elderly people have a quite interesting conversation. The first step is going to be simple. We are only going to try to capture this image in the notebook. We are not going to try to d...”
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Course summary for: Character Sketchbook: Find Your Voice
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Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Carlos Sallas
A course by Carlos Sallas
Carlos Sallas is a distinguished graphic artist and designer hailing from a small town in southern Morelos, Mexico. His deep passion for drawing has led him to work in a variety of fields, including editorial illustration, animation, advertising, and tattooing.
He has collaborated with well-known brands like Moleskine, Wacom, and Kraken, and has contributed to projects with studios such as Ánima, Fotosíntesis, and 4M2Q Studios. Carlos has also taught workshops and given lectures at institutions like Escena, Coco School, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, and the Pixelatl Festival.
Among his most notable projects are the comic "La Canción del Lago," which won first place at the 2019 Pixelatl Festival, and "San Misterio," an animated series and comic that has received accolades at various international festivals.
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