Visual Storytelling with Graphite for Beginners
Visual language
A course by Siamés Escalante , Illustrator and graphic designer
About the video: Visual language
Overview
“Visual language is what click when we see an image and communicate something to us. It is the way in which we interpret, perceive and process it through the eyes and that travels to our brain, perhaps making us remember something, that transports us to another place or that makes us feel some emotion.”
In this video lesson Siamés Escalante addresses the topic: Visual language, 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 3 Visual language I hope the exercise we did It has served you to dust off little. And now we will talk about visual language. Visual language is how we interpret, we perceive and process an image, first with the eyes, and then it goes to the brain. It is what clicks us when we see an image and it reminds us of something or takes us to another world or it makes us feel some emotion. But how do we get our own visual language? To achieve this, we must first know what we want to transmit. We must know well what we want to express, what kind of feelings, to know what kind of stories we w...”
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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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