Creating Original Illustrations with a Tablet
The reference garden
A course by Puño , Illustrator and Educator
About the video: The reference garden
Overview
“In this lesson we will learn how to create, maintain and properly use a graphic references file.”
In this video lesson Puño addresses the topic: The reference garden, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Original Illustrations with a Tablet. Learn to draw digitally and make a homemade print of your first illustration using several layers of ink.
Partial transcription of the video
“The referential garden Something very important in the career of an illustrator it is what I call the referential garden. That is, the set of works or authors that make up our references, our influences. I like to see it as a metaphor for a garden because it is a place that we visit, that we cultivate, that we work, that sometimes we leave fallow, that we choose what is going to be in it or not, that we change it for seasons or according to the moment we have in our life. Much of this referential garden is necessary, in my opinion, that it is off the screens. And in some way offline. be it ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Original Illustrations with a Tablet
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

Puño
A course by Puño
Puño has been a professional illustrator since 1994 and it was just three years later that he also began his career as an educator specializing in creativity, illustration, and graphic storytelling. He has extensive experience in desktop publishing and created and managed the publishing house Ultrarradio from 2010 to 2013. He was also director of the One Year Illustration and Graphic Novel course at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid and curator of the Madrid City Council's exhibition series La Ciudad en Viñetas between 2012 and 2015. He received the 2018 Barco de Vapor Award and the 2009 Fundación SM International Illustration Award, among others.
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