Professional Illustration: Turn Your Passion into a Career
Work processes I
A course by Laura Varsky , Designer and illustrator
About the video: Work processes I
Overview
“A simple example of a typical illustration assignment. ”
In this video lesson Laura Varsky addresses the topic: Work processes I, which is part of the Domestika online course: Professional Illustration: Turn Your Passion into a Career. Learn the techniques and tools to turn your illustrations into something more than a hobby.
Partial transcription of the video
“WORKFLOW 1 In this lesson, we'll go over how to approach a project and we'll start with a very small project. Let's take a look. THE COMMISSION Let's look at what we should do when we receive a commission. Generally, these are the steps we'll follow, to meet their needs. And naturally, upon reading it, a bunch of questions arise about things that still aren't clear. Some typical things to look at are, for example, how much time a client gave you for this project. And we should also see if they gave us references, preferably from our own work, to help us grasp where the client envisions this...”
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Course summary for: Professional Illustration: Turn Your Passion into a Career
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Creative Consulting, Editorial Illustration, Marketing, Portfolio Development, Traditional illustration

Laura Varsky
A course by Laura Varsky
Although Laura Varsky graduated as a graphic designer at the University of Buenos Aires, her interest in the development of different graphic languages and the search for her own one have brought her closer to the world of illustration, a field in which she has achieved several distinctions.
She has participated in several artistic and commercial projects, specializing in the design of albums and books. In 2006 she was awarded the Latin Grammy Award as Art Director, an award for which she was also nominated in 2014 and 2015. She has also worked in the licensing field for both local and international brands.
For more than 10 years she has been a teacher in the subject of Typography at the University of Buenos Aires and has published two typographic families based on her lettering work: Lady René and Lady Dodó, together with the Sudtipos foundry.
She is the author and co-author of several illustrated books and her work is part of the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires. Currently, she gives lectures and workshops in various countries.
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