Especialización en Ilustración surrealista

Introduction

Surrealism invites us to fracture reality and reassemble it through metaphor, dreams, and poetic intuition. Here, illustration becomes a playground for the unconscious, where collage, automatic gestures, and unexpected juxtapositions unlock new visual languages. Through humor and symbolism, images gain emotional depth, encouraging reflection, curiosity, and a lighter way of questioning the world.

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Influences | Marco Mazzoni

I will show you some of my favorite artists. I will make a selection of the artists who amazed me the most for how they create harmony using nature as a subject.

5m

Influences | Virginia Mori

Now I will show you some of the artists and currents that have influenced my style the most. I consider my style to be constantly evolving so my influences are too. Here I will show you some cornerstones that have accompanied me since the beginning of my personal research.

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Influences | Redmer Hoekstra

This is the lesson in which I will talk about the artists that have influenced me the most.

5m

Influences | Marija Tiurina

I’ll share several key influential artists, who've impacted me and my work in some way. These include the talents – of James Jean, Sachin Teng, Hieronymus Bosch, and Mark Ryden – all of whom have shaped and inspired me in their creative approaches.

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Influences | Jhoel Mamani Espinoza

I will show you different painters that I consider the greatest exponents of this genre in painting. It is necessary to distinguish that each one of them expresses with total freedom the themes of death, loneliness, anguish, life, nature, among others, and they give us a panorama full of symbology that I will point out throughout the course.

8m

What Will We Do in This Course?

I will show you what this course is about. I will also provide you with tips and a technique that will allow you to use your brain in a different way.

3m

Materials

I will show you the materials you need for this course. The brand of the materials is not that important. I'll leave the choice of the colored pencils and the type of paper to you, but I'll give you some advice.

5m

Shading and Color Techniques

I will show you some practical examples to use different kinds of colored pencils and graphite. In this lesson, I'll provide some tips to make a good sketch without too many pencils, and we will play with contrast.

19m

The Symbolic Meaning of Animals

I will talk about the concept that must be behind the drawing. The choice of the subject can be random, but it is always useful to analyze the symbols to use them in your work. If you choose the subjects according to their meaning, your work will be more impactful.

7m

Sketching

The sketchbook is really important for an artist or an illustrator. Sketching practice allows you to draw more fluently. I'll tell you a few tricks to move your subject to the position you want.

16m

What Is Drawing Through the Window?

I will show you the "drawing through the window" technique. Drawing certain parts of your subject can be difficult at times. With this technique, you will be able to have the same tension of draw in the whole paper.

11m

Draw Without Looking

Here I'll show you a fun exercise that may seem strange, but it is useful to allow your hand to work free from your eye.

5m

Shape Shifter

It is always useful to know shapes well for drawing. In this exercise, you will have to force your mind to create new shapes from different subjects.

7m

Create the Palette

This is a different way to create palettes based on association of ideas, choosing the colors step by step.

8m

Let’s Do the Lines

We will start by drawing our animal with the final lines. You need to create your final drawing only with the lines of your pencil.

7m

Starting to Color Our Animal

In this lesson, we will start to color our subject with the little window technique. It is always useful to start with the more complex part (the face) because it is the first thing that the viewer will see.

15m

Color the Rest of Our Animal

In this lesson, I will show you some tips to better draw a specific area and ways to assemble the color to obtain something brighter. I will mainly be returning to the animal's face to show tricks to bring character to the subject.

20m

Finishing Touches

After you finish coloring the whole drawing, you can check your entire work (for the first time if you want to wait until the end, but if you are curious you can look even earlier). Now you can focus on the finishing touches to make the drawing look whole. I will also give examples of various colour association tricks to get better results.

14m

Personal Research

In this lesson I will make a general introduction on the artistic path, or on the search for a personal imagination to refine one's technique and style based on experience. In addition, I will tell you about the project of the course and the steps to follow to make it happen.

4m

Exercises to Unlock Creativity

Here I propose two small exercises to deceive the left brain hemisphere (seat of logic and rationality) and allow the right one (the one that analyzes spaces, shapes and controls the imagination) to emerge.

9m

The Importance of Ideas

It's time to talk about ideas. Before the technique and the style comes the idea; if there is no strong idea, there is no incentive to create an illustration.

9m

Analysis of the Idea and Sketch Phase

Once the idea has been identified and the topic has been addressed from multiple points of view, it is time to move from conceptual to formal analysis. The problem of the representation of the idea arises: in this lesson I will show you how to translate it into a series of sketches.

14m

Choosing the Best Sketch

After I have drawn several sketches on the theme and filled pages and sheets with possible ideas, I will move on to choosing the sketch and therefore the best idea, and I will make the pencil base of the final illustration.

7m

Evaluate the Drawing before Inking

Now you will see what considerations to make before the inking phase. It is very important to have clear ideas when placing the pen or marker on the paper, because the action will not be reversible.

7m

Inking

In this lesson I will deal with the first phase of inking, that is the one that concerns the outlines, blacks and shades.

16m

Study for the Texture

After the black and white illustration, here I'll show you how to experiment with ink color before adding it to the final drawing.

11m

Color on Final

Once you have chosen your favorite texture, it's time to apply the pen color on the final drawing. Now I'll show you how to do it!

8m

Digitization and Retouching

When the drawing is finished, I will move on to digitize it with the help of a scanner, in order to retouch the small imperfections of the illustration on Adobe Photoshop.

6m

What Will We Do in This Course?

We are going the wrap this unit up by doing a brief description of what this course is about, what I am intending to teach you and how this teachings can help you in the future.

2m

Materials and Tips

Here I discuss all the materials I use to draw and how to take care of the drawing while working on it.

3m

Hatching

In this lesson, I will show you how to use fineliners and their characteristics.

5m

Light and Dark

In this lesson, I will show you how lights and shadows make your drawing feel alive and give it a 3D feeling.

19m

Drawing Textures

In this lesson, I will show you how to draw different types of structures. This will help you get better at drawing what you have in front of you. In turn, it will contribute to refining your dexterity with the fineliners.

18m

When Ctrl+Z Is Not An Option

In this lesson, I want to address what to do when something goes wrong during the ink phase. For this, I have a few tips and tricks that can spare you from having to start over.

6m

Planting the Seeds

In this lesson, I will give you some ways to come up with an idea. Get your mindset right and get the creative juices flowing.

9m

Weeding and Watering

In this lesson, I talk about discerning between ideas, how to tell apart the good and the not-so-good ideas.

2m

Giving All Your Attention to the Right Plant

In this lesson, I will show you how to set up the final drawing with a pen. At this stage of the process, it is best if you take your time and work carefully. The more careful you are now, the fewer mistakes and fixes you will make later.

9m

Bloom and Pollinate

In this lesson, I talk about how to deal with the most difficult bits of the process and how to manage your time efficiently.

8m

Watching It Bear Fruit to Harvest

In this lesson, I will take you through the final phases of the process. The point of this lesson is to show you tools to overcome the burdens you might find at this stage, namely knowing when to take breaks and when to tell that the work is finished.

15m

Leaving the Nest

First, we need to have our drawing web and print-ready.

3m

Hiding and Flying

Now that the drawing is scanned and/or printed, we have to make sure it won't get damaged. I will show you how to store and display your work.

4m

The Materials

To start with, I'll show you what range of tools and materials you'll need for this course, offering some insight into my personal material preferences along the way.

4m

Watercolour Techniques

You'll be looking at the paper, its relationship with paint, and how much water to use and dilute watercolour. You'll also learn the importance of time (waiting for the colour to be absorbed by paper or for the water to dry) and how to use different brushes for various tasks. I'll combine all these techniques by demonstrating how to paint a simple mushroom!

18m

Experimenting with Colour

In this lesson, I'll paint two simple flowers, one using lighter and another using darker colours. I'll demonstrate gradients and how to blend two colours through water, lighter to darker. How to prioritise lights before darks as watercolour is an additive technique, how mixing specific colours will impact them and what effect that might create.

15m

Surreal Inspiration

Now, you'll take a surrealist approach, and I’ll show you how to find inspiration from around you. You'll look at my Pinterest board named “Surreal Self-Portrait” for initial inspiration, before turning introspective and sourcing inspiration from our own self-analysis.

9m

Sketching Forms

You'll see how to do some sketching in order to find the right foundational forms and composition for your self-portrait. You’ll do this over three stages, first through drawing the angle, position and shape of your head. Secondly, you’ll sketch out some thoughts and activities to populate this with. And finally, you’ll combine the first two steps of sketching into a single rough composition.

20m

Rough Sketches: Concept and Composition

So you’re ready to start! You'll take the rough form discovered in the previous lesson and bring it forward by defining its structure and contents in Photoshop.

19m

Tracing on Watercolour Paper

Now I'll teach you how to transfer the drawing to watercolour paper before getting it ready to paint. I’ll show you the importance of why this is worth taking time over, as it is tricky to make adjustments once you start painting.

14m

The First Watercolour Layer 1

Let me show you how to begin to work on filling in the outline of the illustration. I’ll also add masking fluid to certain areas I want to protect from watercolour paint. But I’ll predominantly focus on filling the various shapes with the base colours until there are no blank elements left.

17m

The First Watercolour Layer 2

During this second part of the lesson, I'll continue showing you how to work on the first watercolour layer. I'll share the best tips and tricks to make this part of the process easier for you!

16m

Additional Watercolour Details 1

It’s now time to elevate the watercolour image further by adding shadows and details. You’ll learn to do this by defining the light source to help inform which areas will benefit from having more depth of colour and tweaking fine details to make it all cohesive.

20m

Additional Watercolour Details 2

Details always matter! That's the reason why I'll show you how to take a final good look at the painting and decide whether you can still improve it by strengthening the shadows or adding more details. I'll also teach you to add colour details with pens.

14m

The Glitter and Gloss

In this lesson, you'll learn to choose what areas could be highlighted, given texture and appeal, by using gloss varnish, shiny paints and markers. I'll show you how to apply those materials to selected areas carefully, let them dry, and demonstrate the effects.

12m

Scanning and Preparing for Print

I’ll show you my process when creating a digital version of our watercolour portrait. I’ll demonstrate how to clean the scan up in Photoshop. While this step is optional, I often find this stage useful to also remove any marks or tweak the image colour grade.

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What will we do during the course?

In this Domestika course, you will learn the pictorial concepts of volume through oil on canvas on canvas for the elaboration of a surrealist work. The idea is that through the course exercises, you can progressively progress. Likewise, I must emphasize that, like all artistic activity, perseverance and discipline will be fundamental. Success!

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Character creation part 1

In this lesson I will teach you the method I recommend to objectively capture our free creation. First, choose a topic of interest, whatever you should be sure that it is to your liking and predilection.

11m

Character creation part 2

It can also be something that worries or disturbs you constantly, maybe some memory, dream, nightmare, fear or anxiety you have in mind. Whatever this is, we will land it on a theme and turn it into elements. It is necessary to review the references I postulated at the beginning and study their characters, to realize what elements they added to create these works.

10m

Surreal character

In this second lesson, we will continue working on our main character, which is a hybrid of all the objects that we have each defined.

13m

Stage Construction

In this lesson we will delve into the construction of the surreal scenario and how it relates directly to the main character. Remember that here is a moment of choice based on the characters outlined: which of the five elements can provide us with a panorama or relationship with space?

8m

Use of pictorial tools

In this lesson we will turn to using the technical tools to be able to advance methodically.

6m

Tone Identification

In this lesson I will begin to give you the drawing patterns through the shades.

6m

The volume through monochronous drawing

In this lesson you will learn to draw with volume by following the steps you will have to put into constant practice.

9m

Color theory applied to oil part 1

In this lesson you will learn to use and recognize pictorial materials, correct use and methods.

12m

Color theory applied to oil part 2

10m

The volume through color drawing part 1

In this lesson you will have to use color to generate volumes and that these are related to each other, for this I ask you to choose the colors of your preference. I suggest you use gray or similar support.

14m

The volume through color drawing part 2

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Spatiality and relationship with the environment in oil painting

In this lesson we will end up clarifying some important details for the relationship between form and space.

10m

Free forms with volume part 1

In this lesson we will make the use of volumes with color more complex, adding to it all the technical resources mentioned above such as: halftone, light, own shadow, projected shadow, reflection and spatiality.

10m

Volume free forms part 2

11m

Large, medium and small

In this lesson I will introduce you to the different ways of composing by size and tone and shape.

6m

Composition part 1

In this lesson I will give you the necessary guidelines to compose a pictorial piece on our stage.

12m

Composition part 2

In this second composition lesson I will help you to give more clarity to our stage by positioning our main character with volume.

9m

Shape, secondary elements

In this lesson we will delve into the form and within, the harmony and rhythm in relation to the pictorial environment.

7m

Final development, background painted

In this lesson we will begin with the development of our final project, starting with the scenario. The idea is that in this part you apply everything learned.

12m

Final development, painted character part 1

In this lesson we will paint our main character and image by applying volume theory.

9m

Final development, painted character part 2

In this video we continue painting the main character.

8m

Final development, rhythm and harmony

In this lesson we will culminate the work by adding the objects of rhythm and harmony to complement the work, let's try to give it a high level of detail, all this with great patience and perseverance.

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