World Building & Compositional Techniques for Illustration
Influences
A course by Ben Newman , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Others' artwork can be highly inspiring! Let me introduce you to some of my main influences.”
In this video lesson Ben Newman addresses the topic: Influences , which is part of the Domestika online course: World Building & Compositional Techniques for Illustration. Learn to create visual worlds for your characters and ideas to live in by exploring simple, graphical techniques and digital tools..
Partial transcription of the video
“Welcome back. In this lesson, I'm going to talk about my key influences with you. I can't quite remember how it began, but I started collecting Eastern European mid-century matchbox labels in my late twenties. They were very, very cheap to buy from eBay. You could buy bags of like hundreds of them and about 20% of them were worth keeping. The thing I love about these matchbox labels is they look like little tiny miniature posters, just a bit bigger than your thumb. Often the paper is very, very aged with these matchbox labels, but they're also printed more often than not in spot colors. I r...”
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Course summary for: World Building & Compositional Techniques for Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Ben Newman
A course by Ben Newman
Ben Newman is a freelance illustrator based in the UK. He has worked with the likes of the New Yorker, Apple, BBC, and Google - but his true passion lies in illustrating children’s books and games. Inspired by children’s space books he flipped through while working in a bookshop, he co-created a book series with his friend, Dr. Dominic Walliman, called Professor Astro Cat. It has since been translated into 28 languages and has been turned into spin-off series for different age groups. He has also written two books inspired by his sons — the sounds Wilbur made to imitate crocodiles motivated him to write Snip Snap, while Rumble Tumble was inspired by Ernie’s frequent accidents while learning to walk.
Growing up, Ben loved watching Pink Panther and Tom & Jerry reruns on television and reading American Superhero comics. Those references have stuck with him throughout his career and he hopes his characters and worlds will be passed down to the next generation in the same way.
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