Creating Original Illustrations with a Tablet
Some essential tricks
A course by Puño , Illustrator and Educator
About the video: Some essential tricks
Overview
“In this lesson we will learn to manage the gestural and corporal expression of our characters. ”
In this video lesson Puño addresses the topic: Some essential tricks, 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
“Some essential tricks Our brain is designed to perceive recognizable shapes where there are only casual stimuli, this psychological phenomenon is called pareidolia and it is the one that does that for example Let's see a face in a socket or emoticons work. We are going to use this phenomenon to endow our characters with our gestural expression drawings, but you don't have to have much experience in drawing to make it work, let's check it out. Let's see what these basic tricks consist of, that our drawings will radically improve, I would like you to open the document called gestural expressi...”
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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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