Graphic Experimentation for Artistic Illustration

Start the course by meeting your teacher Santiago Guevara, who tells you about how he came to illustrate texts for renowned writers and collaborate with publishers, magazines, and other companies doing what he loves most. He also shows you the visual artists and illustrators he admires and how they have influenced his artistic style.

Get into a creative mindset and see Santiago's approach to illustrating a text. Explore the concept of artistic illustration and discover how trial, error, and experimentation can be a positive force when using analog materials. Then, start organizing your ideas on a mood board and create your first sketches.

Now it's time to roll up your sleeves and learn how to work with different materials and techniques. Run through a series of exercises to enhance your creative expression and composition by experimenting with graphite pencils, watercolors, acrylics, colored pencils, oil pastels, gouache, and any other materials you want to use. Apply what you've learned to transform your sketches into final illustrations and follow Santiago's tips to give them a vibrant and colorful finish.

Turn your analog illustrations into digital files so you can reproduce them as many times as you want. Santiago walks you through the digitization process and shows you how to retouch your work and adjust settings to optimize it for printing. Finally, see how to preserve and store your original work for safekeeping and frame your illustrations to share them with the world.