Illustration Gym: Find Your Style
Presentation
A course by Santiago Solís Montes de Oca , Illustrator and Designer
Joined April 2016
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“I want to start by talking about how it was that I delved into the illustration, from the self-taught, the copy and the observation, in addition to my relationship with reading and books. I will finish by showing you my learning method, through different books that I have published, with totally different styles.”
In this video lesson Santiago Solís Montes de Oca addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration Gym: Find Your Style. Explore different illustration paths, learn new techniques, and exercise your imagination.
Partial transcription of the video
“PRESENTATION Hello, welcome to this Domestika course. I am Santiago Solís, I am dedicated to making books, I am a designer, Illustrator, art director and editor. I studied Design in the city of Durango, in a province of Mexico and it was a place where there were not necessarily many things to do, so my way of learning has to do with the self-taught and we will see it in the lessons we see in this course. I have more than ten years working in the industry, I dedicate myself mainly to making books and making books is designing books, illustrating, editing, selling, loading ... There are a lot...”
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Course summary for: Illustration Gym: Find Your Style
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Creativity, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration

Santiago Solís Montes de Oca
A course by Santiago Solís Montes de Oca
A native of Mexico City and raised in Durango, Mexico, Santiago Solís Montes de Oca is a designer, self-taught illustrator, and art director. His work has been exhibited in Europe, South America, the United Arab Emirates, and Mexico. He has a particular interest in making and designing posters, books, projects, and collaborations with professionals from other disciplines where the value lies in the sum of all its creative parts.
He is currently director of the Mano de Papel design studio, coordinator of CASA Ilustración Narrativa, and associate editor at Malpaís Ediciones and Libros de Mano (in the Los Indelibles collection in collaboration with Oink Ediciones).
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