Visual Metaphors: Illustrate Abstract Concepts
Creative Voices and Illustrated Styles
A course by Fernando Cobelo , Illustrator
About the video: Creative Voices and Illustrated Styles
Overview
“There is no one way to illustrate, there are different voices and styles. I want to tell you about the main differences between objective illustrators and subjective illustrators. The former have a more realistic style. Subjective illustrators, on the other hand, reinterpret reality through stylization.”
In this video lesson Fernando Cobelo addresses the topic: Creative Voices and Illustrated Styles, 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
“Creative Voices and Illustrated Styles Now, I'll tell you about creative voices and illustrated styles. When we talk about turning concepts into illustrations, I think it's important to clarify that there are an infinite number of ways to do it because there are infinite professionals who do it, each with their own method and their own results. Aside from the technical issues and tools we can use when making an illustration, i think the most important thing about the illustration is the bridge that is created between the illustration and the beholder. This bridge can be an emotional bridge,...”
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Course summary for: Visual Metaphors: Illustrate Abstract Concepts
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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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