Illustration Gym: Find Your Style
Las acciones
A course by Santiago Solís Montes de Oca , Illustrator and Designer
Joined April 2016
About the video: Las acciones
Overview
“You will learn the difference between passive action and active action. The first is when a character or object travels in space. The second happens when a character or object is on hold and alert. By having one of these two actions, we force some tension on the scene; When what invades the scene does not touch the character, both background and character are disconnected. ”
In this video lesson Santiago Solís Montes de Oca addresses the topic: Las acciones, 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
“THE ACTIONS We arrived at the last unit. Before the final project, let's see how the scenes work in the illustration. All illustration poses a scenario and a possibility. And we need to help ourselves with passive and active actions. Let's see how they work. Here, for example, in this image We are talking about an active action. Why active? Because the characters are moving. We are not so interested in what happens on stage. We know there is a park, but what interests us is why she persecutes her. We can also see the use of diagonals to generate more dynamism. Here another example of an act...”
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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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