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Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills

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Overview

Turn ideas into images and deliver professional illustrations for articles from scratch
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • The Assignment
  • Genius Tips
  • Final project
At the heart of every drawing, there should be a powerful idea. Award-winning Illustrator Nicholas Blechman specializes in coming up with concepts that inspire thought-provoking illustrations. He has illustrated for The New York Times and The Atlantic, and is the current creative director of The New Yorker.

In this course, Nicholas teaches you how to sharpen your conceptual skills while illustrating an editorial article. Create a package of illustrations on a current topic and discover how to translate words into drawings. Are you ready to create artwork that communicates as clearly as words?

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • Working with Art Directors
  • The Beginning of It All: The Text
  • Conceptual Tools
  • Warm-up Exercises
  • First Sketches
  • Discarding Ideas
  • Finalizing
  • Pro Tips
  • Promotion or How to Lure Jobs
  • Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills

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Nicholas Blechman

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