Visual Development: Illustrate Imaginary Settings
The Brief
A course by Lara Pickle , Visual Development Artist
About the video: The Brief
Overview
“Every project starts with a brief, whether a personal one or a commissioned project. Here I will discuss the brief I will be working with for my project, and I will explain how to read and interpret it. The brief is a key part of the creative process.”
In this video lesson Lara Pickle addresses the topic: The Brief, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Development: Illustrate Imaginary Settings. Learn the creative process behind illustrating visual environments for storytelling, from the initial idea to the final composition.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Brief In this lesson, we will discuss the brief of the final project. Working with a brief and understanding it is a key part of the creative process. For the purposes of this course, I'm working off of a brief that I've already created. I've loosely created a character and assigned them key aspects of their personality. It's important to know that we'll create the character's space rather than the character itself. There’s no need to draw them for this, but you can do it if you want to. Let’s review the brief. I've decided to call this project The Witch's Switch. The Witch's Switch i...”
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Course summary for: Visual Development: Illustrate Imaginary Settings
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Concept Art, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing

Lara Pickle
A course by Lara Pickle
Larisa Bumb, better known as Lara Pickle, is a Spanish-Romanian visual development artist based in the UK. Inspired by the cartoons of her childhood, she always knew she wanted to draw for a living. Although she studied animation, she found that her passion lay elsewhere in the industry. She loves the behind-the-scenes work of developing characters and the environments they live in, as it gives her the freedom to explore her imagination and tell stories through her art.
Over the course of her career, Lara has developed designs for animated shows like Nickelodeon’s Pony, Netflix’s Dead End: Paranormal Park, Nella the Princess Knight, and Powerbirds, as well as the musical P.S. I’m a Terrible Person and the comic Kajko and Kokosz. She has also published her own graphic novel Estoy fatal, gracias.
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