Illustration Gym: Find Your Style
Expanding boundaries with borders
A course by Santiago Solís Montes de Oca , Illustrator and Designer
Joined April 2016
Joined April 2016
About the video: Expanding boundaries with borders
Overview
“We will work with a delimited color palette and see how a border can be a growth factor, because it forces us to be more creative and combine what we have at hand.”
In this video lesson Santiago Solís Montes de Oca addresses the topic: Expanding boundaries with borders, 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
“EXPANDING LIMITS WITH BORDERS Welcome to this new unit, we approach the drawing of animals, but first we will see concepts about color. We have talked about limits as a factor that helps us set certain restrictions but that creatively helps us focus better in the forms and in the compositions. A border is not a closed space, but a place where we can stop to observe and contemplate the landscape. We will work with a very short palette in this unit and let's see how that seems to be a very small resource but it will expand as we develop it. In this first step we will work with a basic contras...”
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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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