Creative Illustration: From Text to Image
Text-image relationship
A course by Christian Montenegro , Illustrator and Painter
Joined October 2018
Joined October 2018
About the video: Text-image relationship
Overview
“Illustrating is not just drawing. What relationships can the image establish with its text?”
In this video lesson Christian Montenegro addresses the topic: Text-image relationship, 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
“Relationship text image. In this lesson I will talk about the text-image relationship. We can state this relationship or establish, rather, through questions. The image will be a call to the reader to be interested in the note, or be interested in the text, the image will explain that text, the image will celebrate that text, the image will decorate it. There is a whole range of questions we can ask ourselves, And these questions can be mixed together. They are not fixed categories. Many times, when you receive an illustration assignment ... For example, this is a magazine, the editor alrea...”
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Course summary for: Creative Illustration: From Text to Image
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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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