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Illustration for Tarot: Crafting Your Signature Style

The compositional grid

A course by Elisa Seitzinger , Visual Artist

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10,196 students

Audio: Italian

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About the video: The compositional grid

Overview

“In this lesson, on an A4 document in Photoshop we will create a very rigorous compositional grid, which we can print as many times as needed.”

In this video lesson Elisa Seitzinger addresses the topic: The compositional grid, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration for Tarot: Crafting Your Signature Style. Learn to blend classical art aesthetics with modern digital techniques, meanwhile developing your distinctive style crafting Tarot card illustrations..

Partial transcription of the video

“Before you start drawing, It has always been useful for me to create a compositional grid. Tarot cards have a very high figurative density, then this grid will be very useful for you to go and position the various conographic elements. In this lesson we will see how to create it, so you can save it and print it every time that you will need it. Let's begin! So, first of all let's open a new file for printing, so give us standard size, of dimensions 21x29,7 or a 4 from printer, resolution 300dpi, color mode is fine grayscale, ok, portrait orientation, create, Very well. On this sheet we have...”

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Course summary for: Illustration for Tarot: Crafting Your Signature Style

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (162)
10196 students
5 units
16 lessons (3h 5m)
5 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration

Elisa Seitzinger

A course by Elisa Seitzinger

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Visual Artist

Elisa Seitzinger is a talented visual artist and illustrator known for her unique style inspired by medieval art, Russian icons, and Byzantine mosaics. With a passion for human figures, hieratic faces, and fantastic or monstrous animals, Elisa's work has been featured in various mediums, including newspapers, magazines, clothing, textiles, posters, music albums, books, and tarot cards.

Her fascination with tarot cards and their powerful symbolic and communicative charge led her to explore the depths of traditional symbolism and develop her own visual language. Through continuous research and observation, Elisa has crafted a style that remains true to her cultural background while evolving over time.