Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration
Putting the Ideas to Paper
A course by Evan Lorenzen , Multidisciplinary Artist
About the video: Putting the Ideas to Paper
Overview
“Time to use your tiny sketchbook to see what it feels like drawing this small. I will show you how to start drawing out text and images so that you can get an idea of how you want your compositions to be. ”
In this video lesson Evan Lorenzen addresses the topic: Putting the Ideas to Paper, which is part of the Domestika online course: Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration. Learn how to tell your story intricately by making a teeny tiny book from scratch and filling it with precise, micro-scale illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Putting the Ideas to Paper Now that we finished our tiny sketchbook, in this lesson, we'll start putting some ideas to paper. Before that, it might be important to consider some tips for working in miniature. First, it's important to remember to use your space efficiently. You're working at a small scale, so you have to consider what ideas are relevant and what you need to put on paper. Edit your images so that you get the most out of them without anything extraneous. This isn't necessary but it might be helpful, so you don't end up with too convoluted of an image on your tiny book. Anoth...”
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Course summary for: Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, DIY, Traditional illustration
Evan Lorenzen
A course by Evan Lorenzen
Evan Lorenzen, better known as Art and Such Evan, is a multidisciplinary artist who specializes in micro illustrations. While studying animation in college, he became interested in bookmaking and took a course to learn the process. Several years later, he decided to try it on a small scale and has been passionate about the medium of miniature ever since, as it challenges both his physical and creative limits.
Throughout his career, Evan has had the opportunity to collaborate with organizations like the Miniature Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Amsterdam, Cat Art Show L.A., and hundreds of individual collectors. His work has been featured in exhibits across the US and abroad, including the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil and the Nucleus Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
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