Character Illustration with Acrylic
Presentation
A course by Ariel Olivetti , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“In this lesson I will introduce myself, you will see how my beginnings were and why I wanted to become an illustrator.”
In this video lesson Ariel Olivetti addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Illustration with Acrylic. Learn step by step how to give volume, color, and realism to a superhero using acrylic paint.
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction Hello, welcome to this new painting course on acrylic techniques. I am Ariel Olivetti. I am an illustrator, comic book artist, painter, and I’ve been working for the comic book market for more than thirty years. The techniques I use are oil, acrylic and digital color. I started working professionally for the magazine "Fierro" with pretty strange materials because I am self-taught, so I started working with oil mixed with pencils, mixed with airbrush. I come from a line drawing background, in black and white, like everyone else. From the age of 18, I began to encourage myself to...”
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Course summary for: Character Illustration with Acrylic
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Category
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Character Design, Comic, Painting, Traditional illustration
Ariel Olivetti
A course by Ariel Olivetti
Ariel Olivetti was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires. His passion for drawing the human figure and creating characters led him to creating cover illustrations for the comic magazine FIERRO in the ‘90s. He is also a co-creator of the comic El Cazador. He has been working in the comic industry for over twenty five years as an artist and illustrator, collaborating on publications for Dark Horse, Valiant, Sideshow, MARVEL, DC Comics, and Upper Deck.
His first artwork for the US market was The Last Avengers story for Marvel Comics, and was followed by Daredevil and X-Men. He has collaborated on a limited edition series for DC called Space Ghost and a host of other titles, including Mystique and Sabretooth (1996), Alpha Flight (1997), and What if? (1997) for Marvel, as well as JLA: Paradise Lost (1998), Haven: The Broken City (2002), Green Lantern (2003), and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight.
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