# Create an Infograph that will Make History | Domestika

> Un curs de Fernando Gomez Baptista · Illustration · Intermediar
> 1 lecție ( 2h 12m ) · 99 % din evaluările studenților de 341 sunt pozitive

Interested in the world of infographics? Learn the intricacies of this art form alongside Fernando Baptista, one of the most influential infographic artists in the world, recognized for his work in National Geographic magazine.

In this online course, Fernando teaches you how to make an infographic step by step and tell a story that engages readers on both a visual and textual level. Discover his creative process and how to add that "wow" factor to your work. Ready to design, illustrate, and inform like a professional?

## Who is this online course for?

Anyone interested in infographics and telling visual stories.

## What is this course's project?

Create an infographic on the topic of your choice, including the main image, secondary elements (maps, charts, etc.) and the text, using different creative techniques. In this case, your teacher uses sculpting and illustration.

## Requirements and materials

To take this course, you just need some basic materials such as paper, pencil, Photoshop and Illustrator. If you'd like to take your designs a step further, you can follow along with your teacher and incorporate painting and sculptures, or any other medium you'd like.

## Conţinut

### What is infographics

For me, infographics is telling stories in a visual way, stories that the photo or the text can not. For this I organize my graphic so that it has a reading order and an organization, in a certain way the graphics have a script. I try to make a balance between information and visual appeal, graphics are not decorative elements, they are informative.

### Bases of infographics

We will start with a graph of a process, we will tell something that is a sequence and that way we will begin to think graphically in steps, which is something that will help us to detect possible graphics and to organize the order of them. 
 Let's start thinking with volume that will give us many more possibilities in our graphics and it will be something cumulative. From a simple volume we will move to more complicated volumes. To do this we will create an axonometric template and we can make a library of personalized objects.

### The main element of the graph

We have already begun to have records to jump to a more ambitious project: a large format graphic. How to deal with a graphic with several elements? The first thing is to decide the issue and document about it. Then you have to outline the graph and start designing the main element

### The secondary elements

Once the structure of the graphic and the main element have been decided, it is time to make the secondary elements (maps, charts, small informative graphs, etc).

### Plastic solutions: The Sculpture

We arrived at the plastic part of the infographic. We have edited the information, the design of the main element, in this case the Neanderthal, and we know the secondary elements, so now we are going to illustrate it. We can use different techniques or styles, all can work while the information and the approach are good. A plastic solution that I really like to work with is sculpture.

### Plastic solutions: The Illustration

Another alternative plastic solution that can also work is to illustrate with pencil our elements and then pass them to the computer.

## Audio și subtitrări

**Audio:** Spaniolă, Engleză, franceză, italian, Portugheză, turc

**Subtitrări:** Spaniolă, Engleză, Portugheză, german, franceză, italian, Lustrui, Olandeză, turc

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