Character Illustration and Street Art Mural
Preproduction
A course by Fab Ciraolo , Illustrator
About the video: Preproduction
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you my way of obtaining references for the construction of the chosen character, and I will share with you some considerations that must be taken to be able to rescue its essence and re-interpret it at ease.”
In this video lesson Fab Ciraolo addresses the topic: Preproduction, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Illustration and Street Art Mural. Get to the heart of a character drawing funny process and transfer it to a wall.
Partial transcription of the video
“Preproduction Now we will talk about the preproduction process. Important, I already chose my images. The search I did on the internet He threw me several images that interest me. Basically portraits of Gabriela Mistral where his expression told me something, Some kind of emotion, hopefully look for her smiling. I found many where he comes out smiling because I decided that I wanted him to smile in my final illustration. Why Gabriela smiling? I have a preconceived idea already in my head of Gabriela Mistral. Who was it, what did it do, what I've heard for people, what they taught me at scho...”
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Course summary for: Character Illustration and Street Art Mural
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Collage, Digital Illustration, Street Art, Traditional illustration

Fab Ciraolo
A course by Fab Ciraolo
Fab Ciraolo is an artist and illustrator from Santiago de Chile. He considers himself a visceral artist and his ideas come from the deepest and most significant thoughts and memories of his life. His work is a time machine that always travels towards a colorful, irreverent and personal future.
Based on drawing, illustration and painting, he appropriates the collective imaginary to disassemble and reconvert it, decontextualizing great people of popular culture to create powerful images with their own lives. His work is in countries as remote as China and has been printed on all types of everyday objects.
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