Visual Storytelling with Graphite for Beginners
Dusting off your creativity 1
A course by Siamés Escalante , Illustrator and graphic designer
About the video: Dusting off your creativity 1
Overview
“In order to improve our visual communication, it is important to reinforce our creative process. We must be able to build our own stories in order to tell them through our illustrations. In this lesson, you will learn an exercise that will help you dust your creativity so you can create amazing stories.”
In this video lesson Siamés Escalante addresses the topic: Dusting off your creativity 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Storytelling with Graphite for Beginners. Create illustrations that tell a story with a variety of graphite pencils.
Partial transcription of the video
“LESSON 2 Dusting off your creativity You already know the ways you can tell a story. Let's learn to improve our way of communicating visually. For that we must be able to create the stories that we will tell using images. We don't have to be expert writers or poets, but it is necessary that we practice our imagination, our ability to synthesize and develop ideas. If you don't consider yourself able to create your own stories, I will teach you an exercise to dust off your creativity. This exercise helps me a lot when I have creative blocks. Helps me streamline my brain and to think of new id...”
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Course summary for: Visual Storytelling with Graphite for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Siamés Escalante
A course by Siamés Escalante
Adrianna “Siamés” Escalante is a Mexican illustrator born in the Yucatán province, currently living in Mexico City. Her style is inspired by Japanese culture and by the extraordinary imaginative world of children's stories. The illustrations that she creates are considered wholesome and full of life, capable of transporting the viewer to a universe of innocence, fantasy, and melancholy.
She works in editorial as well as creating commercial pieces for clients such as Penguin Random House, Vans, Izzi Telecom, and el Palacio de Hierro. Her work has been exhibited in various art galleries.
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