Illustration Gym: Find Your Style

Blur and repeat

A course by Santiago Solís Montes de Oca , Illustrator and Designer

Illustrator and Designer. Mexico City, Mexico.
Joined April 2016
97% positive reviews (255)
5,395 students
Audio: Spanish
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About the video: Blur and repeat

Overview

“From the previous drawings, we will make a second drawing altering something of the face: big eyes, small eyes, a lot of eyebrow or sharpening angles. Once that alteration is chosen, you will apply it to the remaining 3 portraits.”

In this video lesson Santiago Solís Montes de Oca addresses the topic: Blur and repeat, 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

“DRAW AND REPEAT In the previous lesson we put a source, which was in this case a photograph, and then we made a first intention drawing which would be a first generation drawing, As I would call it. And now we will work with that drawing and we will unconfigure it. And we would generate a second generation drawing, because it is source, first and second. Let's see how we have left. We have this drawing here and, for example, we could stay at the moment, with the costume of our character. I will not get so much into blacks, but only to mark the shapes. One option could be that we exaggerate,...”

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Course summary for: Illustration Gym: Find Your Style

  • Level: Beginner
  • 97% positive reviews (255)
  • 5395 students
  • 5 units
  • 14 lessons (2h 6m)
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Areas

    Creativity, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration

Santiago Solís Montes de Oca

Santiago Solís Montes de Oca
A course by Santiago Solís Montes de Oca

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Illustrator and Designer

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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Illustration Gym: Find Your Style. Illustration course by Santiago Solís Montes de Oca

Illustration Gym: Find Your Style

A course by Santiago Solís Montes de Oca
Illustrator and Designer. Mexico City, Mexico.
Joined April 2016
  • 97% positive reviews (255)
  • 5,395 students