Character Sketchbook: Find Your Voice
Draw from imagination
A course by Carlos Sallas , Graphic Artist
About the video: Draw from imagination
Overview
“In this lesson, we will focus on transitioning our sketchbook drawings to digital formats. We will learn to scan, ink and color our characters using digital tools like the iPad and Procreate. This process will show you how to take your illustrations to a new level, preparing them to be shared with the world.”
In this video lesson Carlos Sallas addresses the topic: Draw from imagination, 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
“What is drawing? A while ago I heard a very funny interview with Trino and Giz, where the latter talked about how he never uses references to draw objects, even although they are very complicated. So many times, when you draw them, you have to solve them in any way you can and it's usually a lot of fun. Sometimes he draws the cameras as a kind of tube with a huge roll of paper and cars are a box with a bunch of things inside that look like pencils or things like that. So drawing from our imagination can help us find new paths. already have quite original solutions that probably no one has. ...”
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Course summary for: Character Sketchbook: Find Your Voice
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Category
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Software
Procreate -
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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