Visual Metaphors: Illustrate Abstract Concepts
Influences
A course by Fernando Cobelo , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now that you know a little more about me and my path, I want to introduce you to the artists who have inspired me in my professional career with their works.”
In this video lesson Fernando Cobelo addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Metaphors: Illustrate Abstract Concepts. Learn to convey abstract concepts through images by experimenting with analog and digital techniques, collage, and textures.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I would like to tell you about the artists who have influenced my work and some other aspects of my life. First and foremost, the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. He is a great example of what is called kinetic art. He is an artist who tries to evoke movement through colors and shapes or even through light, creating different effects with various installations around the world. He applies this movement or effect to different surfaces and objects well, as in this case in this Caracas auditorium. One of his pieces, among others that influence me a lot, is on the ...”
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Fernando Cobelo
A course by Fernando Cobelo
Fernando Cobelo is an illustrator from Venezuela who currently lives and works in Italy. He put his childhood passion for drawing aside to study architecture in college and didn't pick up a pencil again until many years later when he received his first commission from a US shoe manufacturer, rekindling his passion and transforming it into a full-time job.
Throughout his career, he's worked on a range of projects for clients such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, il Corriere della Sera, Penguin Random House, Zanichelli, multinational corporations including Google, Disney, Samsung, Montblanc, Lonely Planet, and WeTransfer, as well as prominent institutions like the UN and UNICEF. He has also taught and run workshops at schools and universities in Italy, Mexico, India, Russia, China, and a host of other countries.
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