Creative Illustration: From Text to Image
Influences
A course by Christian Montenegro , Illustrator and Painter
Joined October 2018
Joined October 2018
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I'm going to talk about what, who and how they molded me. A mixture of everything without feet or head, that's life. ”
In this video lesson Christian Montenegro addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Illustration: From Text to Image. Learn to analyze a story and interpret it visually.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now I will tell my influences. Saul Steinberg, illustrator. Heir of Paul Klee and Picasso. For me, the illustrator of the twentieth century. All his work is a constant reflection on the act of drawing. His work is an exploration, I'd better say, an exhibition in images, of how abstraction means, of how abstraction can be understood as representation, and how the drawing is, in the end, a language, a convention such as spoken language. Another huge influence is Oski's work, Argentine illustrator and humorist. He is not as well known at the moment, but he was the most important humorist from ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Illustration: From Text to Image
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Category
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Areas
Editorial Illustration, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Christian Montenegro
A course by Christian Montenegro
Before completing his graphic design degree at UBA, Christian Montenegro trained in comics illustration under Alberto Breccia. He has authored books like The Creation: Pictures from the Book of Genesis and New Order and illustrated others, including a Spanish-language version of Kafka's First Sorrow and Didi Grau's Peleonas Mentirosas y Haraganas, Cuatro Gatos Negros Flacos, and Cocorococó. Another recent project is 200 Años de Monstruos y Maravillas Argentinas, an anthology of historical texts by Gabo Ferro.
His work has been recognized worldwide and is featured in various creativity and illustration annuals. He also won the 2009 Swatch Illustrative Award in Berlin and has recently been recognized by ALIJA.
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