Visual Metaphors: Illustrate Abstract Concepts
The Image in the Different Sectors of the Illustration
A course by Fernando Cobelo , Illustrator
About the video: The Image in the Different Sectors of the Illustration
Overview
“Illustration is a very powerful way to communicate in many sectors. Through a drawing, language barriers can be broken and reached the heart of the public. This is why, in recent years, a growing number of brands have chosen to do projects with illustrators and communicate with their audience through images.”
In this video lesson Fernando Cobelo addresses the topic: The Image in the Different Sectors of the Illustration, 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
“Image in Different Sectors of Illustration In this lesson, we’re going to see what illustration is and how it’s applied to different sectors of communication. We all have a different way of defining what illustration is. For me, illustration is a very informative art, in the sense that it greatly enriches the way we perceive the things around us. It has a very important peculiarity: it succeeds in clarifying concepts that we’re sometimes incapable of communicating through words. As illustrators, we have a responsibility to communicate the historical period we find ourselves in, but we also ...”
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Course summary for: Visual Metaphors: Illustrate Abstract Concepts
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Collage, Creativity, Drawing, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Fine Arts, Paper Craft, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

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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