Character Illustration with Acrylic
Influences
A course by Ariel Olivetti , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Here I will share everything about my artistic influences. ”
In this video lesson Ariel Olivetti addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“Influences In this lesson, we'll see my influences. I'm self-taught, so my influences were everything. Before talking about influences, I'll tell you about my first book that I bought when I was a teenager and had to do with illustration. When I decided that this was what fascinated me, that drawing and illustration were my favorite toy, it was with this book, "Illustration and Design.” It is a book that basically talks about all the materials that illustrators have to be able to make a drawing or an illustration: watercolor, acrylic, oil. It blew my mind to know that you could have so many...”
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Course summary for: Character Illustration with Acrylic
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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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