Illustration Gym: Find Your Style
The file
A course by Santiago Solís Montes de Oca , Illustrator and Designer
Joined April 2016
About the video: The file
Overview
“We will save everything we did in a folder or file in groups, with a clip. As if it were a police file, we can expand it on the table to observe the process. At another time we are lacking inspiration, we can return to our file to take references or rework them. ”
In this video lesson Santiago Solís Montes de Oca addresses the topic: The file, 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 FILE In my process, I work with files because that way I can move the pieces and relating parts that I worked in the beginning with those of the end. I will show you how. It is grouped as we work the lessons. From the tools, the borders, portrait work, the colors, historical references, current references, the union of the pallets. Here is a direct relationship between this part and this, deformations from faces how we can apply them in animals. The use of pallets. We also work the actions in the scenes, to finally reach the final pieces. The idea of having all this together It is to wo...”
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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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