Illustration Gym: Find Your Style
Bull body
A course by Santiago Solís Montes de Oca , Illustrator and Designer
Joined April 2016
About the video: Bull body
Overview
“We will review the Picasso bull scheme (an engraving piece of 11 lithographs) and the relevance of this particular case: how, from a first generation drawing, it was debugging parts of the bull to find a minimal shape with lines and a circle. An image that by its simplicity, leaves more than one thinking about the essence of things.”
In this video lesson Santiago Solís Montes de Oca addresses the topic: Bull body, 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
“BODY OF TORO We continue to review the work of the line and this time we will see a series of prints that Pablo Picasso did in 1945, the famous Picasso Bull. Well, it must be said that Picasso already deformed the bull a bit, So, we already have a different first composition. And here is a pretty curious head. But it exemplifies very well how we think it is a bull really. It has all the factors: the tail, the loin, two strong legs, the trunk, a large head, horns. Here Picasso begins to play with much more marked forms. We have here a very sharp curve, another very sharp curve, another very ...”
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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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