An online course by a commercial illustrator from Italy will help you learn how to create conceptual illustrations manually and using digital tools. During five training modules, with the help of an experienced mentor-teacher, you will pass all the way from developing an idea to drawing the final accents and coordinating the image with the customer. Learn a new profession and realize yourself as an illustrator!
The course of Marco Melgrati is perfect for those who are just trying themselves in painting, because training does not require prior skills and is available even to a beginner.
Art lover
Learn to express your thoughts and ideas in artistic language using various materials and digital tools.
Professional artist
Сourse will help you to learn how to use the tools for creating digital illustrations and how to work out the concept and present the work to the client.
Applicant and art student
Applicants and students of art universities will learn how to solve professional artistic tasks easier and faster and master the profession of illustrator, which will allow you to earn in parallel with higher art education.
You will learn
To turn illustrations onto paper from a digital tablet
To use a variety of art materials in your work
To use Photoshop to create digital illustrations
To mix colors for a unique author's palette
To create conceptual illustrations taking into account the customer's terms of reference
The module is dedicated to meeting the course teacher and the specifics of working as a commercial illustrator. Result: We got acquainted with the teacher and listened to a lecture on commercial illustration.
Module 2: Practice. Base.
As part of the practical module, you will get acquainted with the technique of creating commercial illustrations using digital and artistic tools and gradually pass the path from forming the idea of future work to its implementation.
Module 3: Practice. Sketching
In this section, you will learn how to turn a customer's technical specification into a ready-made conceptual illustration, and learn how to create quick sketches on a digital tablet using Photoshop.
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Italy
Marco Melgrati
The freelance illustrator, originally from Italy, collaborates with The Washington Times, GQ Magazine, Politico, Corriere della Sera, Marie Claire, The Boston Globe and other newspapers and magazines, as well as various advertising agencies. His digital illustrations poke fun at the vices and mores of modern society, which has earned Marco fame and a reputation as a modern caricature artist. In his work, the artist uses digital tools and shares knowledge and skills with students.
Teacher
Teacher's paintings
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Get a certificate
After passing all homework, you receive a licensed certificate of completion of the education, if you have chosen the "Training with a teacher" access option.
Tasks open at the end of each block. Your drawings are evaluated by a professional artist or curator. Completing homework is a necessity for moving to the next block.
You do homework
You watch video tutorials
After payment, you get access to your personal account and watch video tutorials recorded together with the artist at any convenient time from any device.
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Frequently Asked Questions
All the learning videos are recorded. You can watch it at a convenient time in a convenient place. You will only need a computer or a mobile phone.
Throughout the training, you are supported and guided by the curator of the course — the current artist — teacher of the Academy. You get feedback on your work and apply all the knowledge in practice.
Homework is a necessary part of each course. Pass it in time and get access to the following blocks of learning. Don’t worry if you don’t have time, the curator will always help and support you.
Intensive classes and demo classes are kept forever in your personal account. Large courses with streams and validation are available a week after the end of the course.
At the end of the course, you will receive a certificate, as well as ready-made portfolio works that you can use in the future.
All the learning videos are recorded. You can watch it at a convenient time in a convenient place. You will only need a computer or a mobile phone.
Throughout the training, you are supported and guided by the curator of the course — the current artist — teacher of the Academy. You get feedback on your work and apply all the knowledge in practice.
Homework is a necessary part of each course. Pass it in time and get access to the following blocks of learning. Don’t worry if you don’t have time, the curator will always help and support you.
Intensive classes and demo classes are kept forever in your personal account. Large courses with streams and validation are available a week after the end of the course.
At the end of the course, you will receive a certificate, as well as ready-made portfolio works that you can use in the future.
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