Visual Language with Analogue & Digital Illustration Techniques

Mind Mapping and Photos

A course by Lucy Sherston , Artist and illustrator

100% positive reviews (44)

1,334 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Mind Mapping and Photos

Overview

“Here I will talk about some of the ways I find inspiration and reconnect with myself and the themes I want to convey in my work. ”

In this video lesson Lucy Sherston addresses the topic: Mind Mapping and Photos, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Language with Analogue & Digital Illustration Techniques. Find your own personal visual language and experiment with analogue and digital illustration techniques..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we'll be looking at two of the key tools that I use to gain inspiration, mind mapping and using photos as reference. The exercises we're going to be doing here are all about discovering our own visual language and the things that are personal to us, making discoveries about the things we like and kind of figuring out those connections between all of these things. We're going to then use these discoveries to inform our final project where we'll be creating an illustration that sort of represents our own visual language. I love using mind maps as a way of reconnecting with my ...”

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Course summary for: Visual Language with Analogue & Digital Illustration Techniques

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (44)
1334 students
4 units
15 lessons (2h 58m)
1 download

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Collage, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Sketching

Lucy Sherston

A course by Lucy Sherston

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Artist and illustrator

Lucy Sherston is a renowned artist and illustrator known for her captivating compositions that blur the lines between the abstract and the figurative. She enjoys exploring the circular journey between the physical and the virtual, allowing her ideas to take shape in sketchbooks, dissolve into digital creations, and finally materialize into unique art pieces like prints, flags, or even deckchairs!

Her artistic approach involves mixing techniques to maximize their potential, using manual drawing to nurture creativity and design software to focus on colors, proportions, and harmony. In this course, Lucy generously shares her method for unleashing your creativity through free pencil sketches and creating engaging digital collages. By the end of this creative journey, you'll be empowered to infuse your artwork with energy and meaning, embracing the synergy between digital and analog techniques.