Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
Influences
A course by user1836389 surname1836389 , Illustrator
Joined December 2019
Create artwork filled with intricate ideas while maintaining balance and harmony
Joined December 2019
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show some of my influences and how you can find inspiration from our rich historic past, both as a way to find new ways to create art, borrowing techniques, and styles, but also to get a better understanding of history. ”
In this video lesson user1836389 surname1836389 addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail. Create artwork filled with intricate ideas while maintaining balance and harmony.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson I'll talk a little bit about my influences. When choosing influences and finding what you're inspired by, it's very easy to be stuck in the now. There's so much great art being produced all the time and some very great artists, and with the social media and stuff like that, you've got this constant stream of wonderful artwork. It's important to find the stuff that you really like, but I also like to go backwards when I find my inspiration, to go back to history. It's both best way we can get a view how life was in ancient times because reading a book from Roman tim...”
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Course summary for: Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
A course by user1836389 surname1836389
Mattias Adolfsson has been working as a freelance illustrator for over eleven years. While working as a graphic designer in the computer games industry, he started sharing his work on social media, where he began his successful career in illustration.
His long list of clients includes Nickelodeon, Disney, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers, and other important animation studios. He has also illustrated for magazines including The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times.
Mattias has created a variety of illustration work in areas like product design, for baby clothes brand Atelier Choux Paris, record sleeves, as well as an art commission for the largest hospital in Sweden.
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