Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper
Influences
A course by user29750 surname29750 , Editorial illustrator
Joined April 2010
Learn the whole process of drawing and coloring narrative scenes from scratch
Joined April 2010
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Here I will tell you about the artists, writers and experiences that have influenced me as an illustrator.”
In this video lesson user29750 surname29750 addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper. Learn the whole process of drawing and coloring narrative scenes from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson we'll look at my main influences. I'll start with a very important person in my life, the writer Italo Calvino. In an architecture presentation an extract was read from "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino. I searched for it and when I found it, I was amazed by Italo Calvino's imagination. His ability to build cities on one page and throw them out on the next. In "Invisible Cities" Marco Polo speaks to Kublai Khan, the emperor, and tells him about a thousand cities, and Kublai Khan complains that it's the same one described in a different way; and that may be true, ...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Narrative, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
A course by user29750 surname29750
Alfredo Cáceres is an editorial illustrator who specializes in editorial illustration and animation projects.
He started working in 2008 in the newspaper El Mercurio as an illustrator for six years. Since then, he has worked as a freelancer for the newspaper La Tercera, he has written and illustrated two album books published by SM Chile (Los Intrusos y Los Visitantes), book covers for Alfaguara Spain, and now he is writing and illustrating a graphic novel in his spare time.
Alfredo has developed a somewhat dark, magical, and mysterious style, based on his youth in the south of Chile (Valdivia) using the typical wooden houses, the moss, and the rain as characters.
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