Illustration: From Idea to Concept
Presentation
A course by Mike Sandoval , Illustrator
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to tell you how I discovered my greatest passion in life: tell short stories through drawings or illustrations that can be recorded in the viewer's mind.”
In this video lesson Mike Sandoval addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration: From Idea to Concept. Learn a new creative process to create solid illustrations from simple ideas.
Partial transcription of the video
“WHO I AM? Hi, how are you? My name is Mike Sandoval. I am a designer, illustrator and visual artist. I am thirty three years old and I was born in Mexico City and have lived here all my life. My passion and the reason why I am here today it's because I like to tell stories, but not just any kind of stories, I like to tell stories with only one image. Why? Because when I was younger I wanted to do comics, but, really, I'm not good at doing that and bigger I realized that the profession of illustrator existed with which I can summarize a whole story in a single image. I studied the graphic de...”
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Course summary for: Illustration: From Idea to Concept
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Creativity, Traditional illustration

Mike Sandoval
A course by Mike Sandoval
After 7 years of experience as an Art Director in advertising agencies, life gave Mike Sandoval the opportunity to make the leap and devote himself to what he always wanted to be: a freelance professional illustrator.
His passion for telling stories in illustrations united him with his second passion: music, making posters for independent bands such as Cardiel, LNG/SHT and Los Viejos to international projects such as Café Tacvba, Zoé, The Prodigy, Queens of the Stone Age, Belle and Sebastian, Kendrick Lamar, Interpol, Incubus, and Foo Fighters, among others.
His client portfolio includes brands such as Wacom, Vans, Nike, Reebok, Indian Beer, White Beer, Victoria Beer, Microsoft, EA, Omega, Casio, and Kipling, among others, performing interventions on walls and in graphics for ads. In addition, he is the founder and organizer of Drink & Draw DF (Mexico).
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