World Building & Compositional Techniques for Illustration
Location
A course by Ben Newman , Illustrator
About the video: Location
Overview
“To begin with, you will learn how to decide the location of the scene. I will also teach you to use a timed drawing exercise to help you understand how to draw them. ”
In this video lesson Ben Newman addresses the topic: Location, 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're going to use a timed drawing exercise to get the most out of our reference material. I developed this timed drawing exercise years ago when I used to teach at a university. A student I was teaching at the time would come in each week with his sketchbook and he was trying to draw a big, complicated city drawing, but he liked the work that he had done in the centre of the page so much he found it almost impossible to branch out further and complete his image. He had become so precious over his drawing that it paralysed him from finishing it. So what I'd like us to do wit...”
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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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