Illustration Gym: Find Your Style

Illustration gym: find your style

“We have reached the end of this course! It has been a great trip for me. Before finishing, a few words: Drawing involves a physical, emotional and mental process. In the physical part it requires that we are working with the drawing and repetition tools, as in a gym weights or treadmill are used. This first part is essential to find a discipline and know our limits. On the emotional side is finding topics that we like and generate interest, not only in working them but in developing them. Investigate further and experience other ways to get to the subject. In this case it was the portrait, we started from an object of study and added an emotion factor, transforming what we are seeing. Finally, the mental part. For me, the illustrator's work is 70% mental and 30% technical. Mentally, observation and collection are very important. In the observation we put to work our capacity to find the different thing in a scene, to cultivate the eye as it happens with the photographer. In the collection we are gathering different information that may not be useful in the first instance, but will be present when the indicated order arrives. Thinking about the gym analogy, we will have more options and more combinations (and therefore less boredom) in a space with machines and routines for the whole body, than if we only had a pair of weights of a specific caliber. That imagined space must be fed from the physical, the emotional and the rational. Like all sports, we have to have our rest periods, clear a little, air and tidy the room, which is a race of endurance rather than speed. Throughout the course, we develop various skills, the natural option for the final project is to put together your process folder. But I would also like to leave you with some stage options that perhaps you enjoyed more than others, or that deserve your curiosity to be amplified: a) Make a series of portraits from one of the styles you created. I recommend between 7 and 12 to let go. Remember to use the same tool and the same format. b) An own zoo, they can be separately or develop a scene with everyone. At least 5 animals. Remember that every species has its variations (cats: tiger, jaguar, lion, wild cat, panther, leopard, jaguar, cougar, domestic cat) so if you found a shape that you liked, you can work it from its nearby circle or take it to others limits. c) Activate scenes. Choose a format (horizontal or vertical) and its color palette. You will see how the color begins to generate sensations by combination and your eye will seek to balance the color. At least 3 scenes. I hope I explain the closing better and help you in your series, I love to see its process and its progress. Let's share the drawings and processes in the forum, which is always nice to feel that we are not alone in the world of the image; we can invariably learn something new from colleagues. All doubts and recommendations, both materials and references, are welcome. I am sure that together we can make a great community. I hope you had a good time, and I want to see the results! We keep reading and we keep drawing! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“FINAL PROJECT Before finishing, we will see a summary of the course. I started telling you a little of my fears in the illustration and my relationship with reading and books. I showed you some works by illustrators and artists I admire the versatility of his work. Then, through several examples I taught how different illustrators handle the line and how this is the essence of the drawing. I showed you the tools we would work with with quick drawings for you to learn their differences and characteristics. We begin to make a series of portraits, where with some exercises, we familiarize ours...”

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Course summary for: Illustration Gym: Find Your Style

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (255)
• 5394 students
• 5 units
• 14 lessons (2h 6m)

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration