Illustration Gym: Find Your Style
What will we do in the course?
A course by Santiago Solís Montes de Oca , Illustrator and Designer
Joined April 2016
About the video: What will we do in the course?
Overview
“The purpose of this course is to exercise with drawing. When we start it is difficult to take condition, and the number of options to learn can also be overwhelming. This gym seeks, from the observation of the real, to generate series of drawings to find a style that fits our first capacities, and thus generate a world of its own with clear rules and repeat them, to understand how well they work.”
In this video lesson Santiago Solís Montes de Oca addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, 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
“WHAT WILL WE DO IN THE COURSE? I already talked a little about myself and my references, Now we will talk about what you will learn in this course. We will work simple line and form exercises to strengthen our style and our narration. We will play with the configuration of forms and we will train in the illustration. Drawing people and animals can be a very difficult challenge, But with the lessons it will be easier. We will do repetition exercises to improve your agility and strength in the drawing. The practice is key for the illustrator because it is necessary to improve The technique an...”
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Course summary for: Illustration Gym: Find Your Style
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Category
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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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