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 was born in Madrid in 1978. He has worked as an illustrator since 1994 but didn't actually take it seriously until 2005. He is the author of several book illustrations, both for children and adults, and has published books of all kinds, including some with his poems.
He has worked in different professional fields, such as advertising, press, and animation, and in his spare time, he makes street photography series. He has lived in Madrid, A Coruña, and Paris, and has worked for almost every imaginable client, such as Coca-Cola, Nike, Greenpeace, TEDx, BBVA, Telefonica, ING Direct, Ono, El Mundo, Kalandraka, and Nobrow 8.
In 2009, he won the SM Foundation International Illustration Prize and the First Creacomic CAM 2009 Award. Since 2011, he has coordinated and directed several courses in illustration and creativity, including at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid.
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