World Building & Compositional Techniques for Illustration
Decoding Images
A course by Ben Newman , Illustrator
About the video: Decoding Images
Overview
“Now I will show you how to break down busy, narratively complex single images into a series of simple shapes to demonstrate the foundations of composition. ”
In this video lesson Ben Newman addresses the topic: Decoding Images, 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
“In this lesson, we are going to break down busy, narratively complex images into a series of shapes to demonstrate the foundations of the composition. I spend a lot of time illustrating these types of scenarios and images in the Professor Astro Cat books where I have to deal with a lot of text, characters and locational elements to help explain science. So to start, let's take a look at one of my images. This is an image that I illustrated for a company called Comerge, based in Switzerland. The brief that they gave me was to illustrate an image for the front of their 2015 calendar. They wer...”
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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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