Visual Metaphors: Illustrate Abstract Concepts
Enrich the Aesthetic Baggage
A course by Fernando Cobelo , Illustrator
About the video: Enrich the Aesthetic Baggage
Overview
“One of the ways to develop your own style is to train the eye to enrich your aesthetic baggage. In this lesson I want to retrace the phases that have characterized my life as an illustrator, and teach you some strategies to grow and improve. ”
In this video lesson Fernando Cobelo addresses the topic: Enrich the Aesthetic Baggage, 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
“Enrich Your Aesthetic Repertoire In this lesson, we'll look at how to train our eye to increase our aesthetic repertoire a little, but we will do it in a very particular way. At the beginning of my career, when I saw all these creative voices that we’ve gotten to know during the past lessons, it was very easy to think that I’d never succeed in reaching a high level like theirs. I made the mistake of thinking that the talent of these people was innate, when in reality behind all this there is so much perseverance and curiosity. We all go through different stages, and now, in hindsight, I can...”
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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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