Specialization: Paper Art Storytelling

Overview

“For the first page of the book, I will be using a box mechanism with a pyramid lid and a flat lid to create Big Ben. Arguably the world's most famous clock, I will first establish its shape and then hone in on capturing its iconic silhouette. The key here is to think about how to translate the main design elements that make Big Ben instantly recognisable, but also distill these into simple forms so that it's suitable for a pop-up. Let's go into Illustrator!”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Designing Page 1: Big Ben , which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization: Paper Art Storytelling. Explore advanced paper sculpting techniques to create impactful, dimensional artworks inspired by nature or architecture.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we'll put together the first page of your book, Big Ben, using the box mechanism that we looked at in an earlier lesson. using the pyramid lid and the flat lid. Big Ben is an incredibly famous clock. Everybody knows what it looks like. So our job is to take this iconic shape and distill it down into a form that we can use into a pop-up. Let's go into Illustrator and start the design process. I'm using Adobe Illustrator for this, it's the program that I design in, but actually you can use any vector program. And you could also do this by hand with a pencil ruler and a protrac...”

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Course summary for: Specialization: Paper Art Storytelling

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (3)
• 345 students
• 7 units
• 107 lessons (22h 6m)
• 52 downloads

• Areas

  Art Direction, Arts & Crafts, Creativity, Decoration, DIY, Narrative, Paper Craft, Product Photography, Sculpture, Set Design, Storytelling, Traditional illustration