Illustrated Pattern Design
Brief and thematic
A course by Ana Sanfelippo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Brief and thematic
Overview
“We will choose a classic story or story according to tastes and interests or just thinking about what we want to draw. In this lesson I will help you select what to represent. Characters, main and secondary objects, context elements and others that, by way of miscellaneous, can complete the patterns. ”
In this video lesson Ana Sanfelippo addresses the topic: Brief and thematic, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Pattern Design. Learn to tell stories using your own hand-drawn patterns and print them on different surfaces.
Partial transcription of the video
“Brief and theme In this lesson, we're going to work on defining our brief and theme. In my case, I will work on the classic tale "The Little Mermaid". Starting from a classic fairytale gives me the possibility to guarantee a specific universe. I will have elements such as characters, context elements, and a lot of other information that guarantees me a certain versatility to work on several patterns and not just one. This enables us to have different information hierarchies. We'll have our primary characters, context elements, other more secondary elements, including small, miscellaneous it...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Pattern Design
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Gouache Painting, Pattern Design, Printing, Traditional illustration

Ana Sanfelippo
A course by Ana Sanfelippo
Ana Sanfelippo is an Argentine illustrator and graphic designer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires. She went from being a student to a teacher there, where she spent 14 years teaching illustration and typography.
Ana specializes in children's illustration, her main products being books and pattern designs. She collaborates with brands for whom the illustration is applied to the product as the main protagonist, such as Birchbox, La Maraña, Amazónica, and Papelirea.
She started more than ten years ago in the professional field of editorial illustration, where she first started working with patterns to create book covers. Since then, pattern design has become the place of perfect harmony between her two passions: illustration and design.
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