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00:00:00.080 so hey guys what's up in case you don't
00:00:01.920 know me and this is the first time you
00:00:03.520 watch a video
00:00:04.480 on my channel my name is pierce linos
00:00:06.399 i'm an illustrator and designer from
00:00:08.240 israel
00:00:09.200 and i've been working as a newsletter
00:00:11.280 for the past five years now
00:00:12.960 i work mainly on illustration work that
00:00:15.360 is connected to
00:00:16.239 branding and graphic design and these
00:00:19.119 are just some examples
00:00:20.640 of the work that i do today and on
00:00:24.000 today's talk i want to talk about
00:00:26.080 finding your illustration style
00:00:28.320 which is a very big question and
00:00:31.439 something that i get a lot of questions
00:00:33.760 about
00:00:34.480 and i was definitely thinking about it a
00:00:36.480 lot as a student and even later on
00:00:38.800 in my career so yeah it really bothered
00:00:41.840 me as a student
00:00:42.960 and i definitely remember working on
00:00:46.320 illustrations for class in the
00:00:48.079 university while studying
00:00:50.000 illustration and graphic design and i
00:00:52.640 remember you know coming up with the
00:00:54.000 illustration
00:00:55.199 feeling like it's it's the most amazing
00:00:57.840 illustration i ever made
00:00:59.600 and that this is it this is my
00:01:01.280 illustration style this is how i'm going
00:01:02.879 to draw
00:01:03.680 from now on and a couple of weeks later
00:01:07.360 work on another class a different class
00:01:09.439 come up with a different
00:01:10.479 illustration style and technique and
00:01:13.680 again like fall in love with with this
00:01:15.360 new illustration and again think that
00:01:17.280 this is it
00:01:17.920 this is my style i found my style and
00:01:20.799 i'm gonna draw
00:01:22.000 just like this so i was definitely
00:01:24.159 confused as a student
00:01:25.680 and i felt like this topic really
00:01:28.240 bothered me and i couldn't find any
00:01:30.000 answers
00:01:30.880 and whenever i actually looked for
00:01:32.640 answers online
00:01:34.159 or ask my teachers i will always get the
00:01:37.040 same
00:01:37.439 answer which is just draw a lot and
00:01:41.280 i mean this was so annoying and this
00:01:43.920 used to really piss me off as a student
00:01:46.240 but actually nowadays when i think about
00:01:48.240 it there is some truth to
00:01:49.920 this saying and it's definitely helpful
00:01:52.720 when you draw a lot and the more you
00:01:54.240 draw you can actually learn
00:01:55.759 and understand better what your style is
00:01:58.240 all about
00:01:58.960 but i did want to get more answers as a
00:02:01.920 student
00:02:02.640 and i do want to give you more answers
00:02:04.479 now and share with you
00:02:06.159 some of the things that i learned about
00:02:08.160 this topic um in my own personal journey
00:02:10.800 so
00:02:11.680 hopefully i can help you out with some
00:02:13.920 tips or ideas or
00:02:15.200 just things you can think about and
00:02:18.239 maybe it will help you develop your
00:02:20.000 style so
00:02:21.440 this is what i'm gonna do today in this
00:02:22.959 talk i'm gonna try and share
00:02:24.959 the things that i know about
00:02:26.480 illustration style and hopefully
00:02:29.280 this will be helpful so so this talk has
00:02:32.160 three different parts
00:02:33.360 in the first part i'm gonna talk about
00:02:35.360 why do we actually need the illustration
00:02:36.879 style
00:02:37.519 in the second part i'm gonna talk about
00:02:40.000 um how to actually make your
00:02:41.519 registration style unique
00:02:43.200 and then in this in the third part i'm
00:02:45.680 gonna share
00:02:46.239 my own personal story and share with you
00:02:48.319 how i actually develop my own personal
00:02:50.160 style
00:02:51.040 so yeah let's get started with the first
00:02:53.440 one and it's
00:02:54.720 about why do you actually need an
00:02:57.760 illustration style so it's more of like
00:02:59.760 a bigger
00:03:00.720 question of why is this important and
00:03:04.239 the truth is it's not that important and
00:03:07.360 you can
00:03:07.920 definitely be a successful illustrator
00:03:10.239 without having
00:03:11.599 like a very specific style and there's a
00:03:13.840 lot of different
00:03:14.959 things you can do where it's actually
00:03:17.840 the opposite and for example if you work
00:03:20.319 in a graphic design and branding studio
00:03:23.120 or maybe an animation studio
00:03:25.200 most chances are this studio has a lot
00:03:27.840 of different clients
00:03:29.200 working with the same studio so it's
00:03:31.840 actually a good thing to have a
00:03:34.080 big range of different styles that you
00:03:35.920 can use for the different clients
00:03:38.400 so i'm definitely not saying that you
00:03:41.200 have to have your own specific
00:03:43.360 and unique style but i do think it's
00:03:45.840 helpful
00:03:46.879 where you when you are a freelancer and
00:03:49.920 sometimes as a freelancer it can be
00:03:51.680 really helpful to be known and famous
00:03:53.519 for
00:03:54.159 just one thing so for example um
00:03:57.840 these are my illustrations and i came up
00:04:00.640 with this
00:04:01.200 new style that i was experimenting with
00:04:03.439 which is
00:04:04.400 all black and white and animals and you
00:04:06.720 know some typography
00:04:08.319 and once i published this work i
00:04:10.560 actually got
00:04:11.439 a request for from a client asking for
00:04:14.239 the same style
00:04:15.519 for this illustration or t-shirt and
00:04:18.639 you know once i published this
00:04:20.000 illustration i got
00:04:21.918 asked to do another illustration in the
00:04:24.400 same style again because
00:04:26.240 i already had these two in my portfolio
00:04:29.120 and
00:04:29.440 um it made sense for new clients to come
00:04:32.400 and ask for the same style
00:04:34.000 so being famous for one style can be
00:04:36.320 really really helpful
00:04:37.520 in in case you are a freelancer and you
00:04:39.360 want to attract
00:04:40.800 a specific type of clients and
00:04:44.080 but i want to try and you know just
00:04:45.840 switch the perspective for a moment
00:04:48.000 and take a look at it from the
00:04:50.320 perspective of the client
00:04:52.000 so just for the example let's imagine
00:04:54.160 that this is actually our client
00:04:56.400 and this guy has a punk rock band
00:04:59.680 they're very successful they are going
00:05:02.000 on tour and they're making new music
00:05:04.160 and they're very busy and successful and
00:05:06.160 they need a poster
00:05:07.440 for their next music festival and then
00:05:10.160 this client does
00:05:11.280 exactly the same as all clients he goes
00:05:13.520 online to look for a designer or an
00:05:16.000 illustrator that can help him out
00:05:18.080 and he goes to google and goes to
00:05:20.800 instagram
00:05:21.919 maybe he's familiar with some of the
00:05:24.000 design platforms
00:05:25.600 and he goes to search on behance and
00:05:28.000 dribble
00:05:28.720 and eventually he ends up with you know
00:05:31.360 finding
00:05:32.000 some illustrators and looking at their
00:05:34.160 portfolios
00:05:35.520 so just for the example let's say that
00:05:37.520 this is the portfolio that
00:05:39.520 our client finds online and it's
00:05:42.400 actually different
00:05:43.520 five different illustrations from five
00:05:45.680 different artists
00:05:47.039 but just for example let's say it's the
00:05:49.199 same guy
00:05:50.160 so obviously you can see the style is
00:05:51.840 all over the place each illustration is
00:05:53.919 very very different
00:05:55.280 and when a client look at this portfolio
00:05:58.479 it is going to have
00:05:59.280 a hard time actually to understand what
00:06:02.400 is he going to get
00:06:03.199 i mean what type of poster what kind of
00:06:05.280 style is he gonna get
00:06:06.479 when he's gonna commission this
00:06:08.240 illustrator
00:06:09.520 so this is a bit confusing and
00:06:12.720 let's say our client keeps on searching
00:06:15.039 online and he finds
00:06:16.160 the work of jeff soto which is one of my
00:06:19.039 favorite artists
00:06:20.479 and you know just by looking at
00:06:24.160 these three posters you can already have
00:06:27.520 uh easier time understanding you know
00:06:29.680 what is that the look and feel that
00:06:31.680 you're gonna get
00:06:32.400 these illustrations are very dark the
00:06:35.360 colors are very dark
00:06:36.560 and vivid the imagery is kind of scary
00:06:39.680 and
00:06:39.919 weird there's lots of skulls weird
00:06:42.160 creatures
00:06:43.360 and overall i feel like it's it's very
00:06:46.080 clear
00:06:46.639 what i'm gonna get when i'm gonna commit
00:06:48.639 if i'm gonna commission
00:06:50.000 jeff soto and ask for a new poster
00:06:52.000 design i feel like i know
00:06:54.639 the direction in which the poster is
00:06:56.960 gonna go
00:06:57.759 and the look and feel and everything so
00:07:00.000 obviously you know
00:07:01.039 having a clear style a specific style
00:07:03.360 can be really really helpful for the
00:07:04.880 client
00:07:05.440 in this case and what's even better is
00:07:07.840 the fact that you can see that jeff soto
00:07:10.000 already worked with other bands like
00:07:11.759 metallica
00:07:12.720 and faith no more so this is amazing i
00:07:15.680 mean these artists actually work
00:07:17.520 in the specific niche that our client is
00:07:20.639 is looking for so this is i think this
00:07:23.440 is a great example of why
00:07:25.039 sometimes some artist gets all the work
00:07:28.160 while other artists
00:07:29.360 doesn't get any work so i mean when you
00:07:32.479 look at it from the client's perspective
00:07:34.400 i think you need to remember that our
00:07:36.400 client is
00:07:38.080 most of the time they're busy and
00:07:39.520 stressed with other things for example
00:07:41.680 our client is busy with making music and
00:07:44.479 going to shows and
00:07:46.080 it doesn't know anything about graphic
00:07:48.080 design illustration
00:07:50.000 it just has this problem and it needs he
00:07:52.560 needs to be solved
00:07:53.840 he needs a poster and obviously is
00:07:56.080 overwhelmed with options you know
00:07:57.759 he goes online he finds a hundred
00:07:59.680 different illustrators
00:08:00.879 he doesn't know what to do is confused
00:08:02.960 and of course it doesn't want to
00:08:04.879 waste the money and end up with a poster
00:08:07.759 that doesn't fit
00:08:08.960 what the band needs so i really think
00:08:12.479 you need to remember these things and
00:08:13.919 remember that the client is not
00:08:15.440 your enemy he's just busy confused and
00:08:18.400 stressed
00:08:19.360 and sometimes this might come off as
00:08:21.840 aggressive
00:08:22.479 but most of the time our clients just
00:08:24.800 need to
00:08:25.599 to get their problem solved and
00:08:28.720 when your portfolio is clear enough it
00:08:30.960 will feel like it's not risky to work
00:08:32.958 with you
00:08:33.599 it makes sense because they'll know what
00:08:35.200 they're going to get and this way
00:08:37.120 um every everybody's happy i think so
00:08:39.679 this is why i think
00:08:41.120 it's super important to have clear style
00:08:43.440 in your portfolio
00:08:44.959 and i do want to add just like one more
00:08:48.399 note
00:08:48.800 before we continue and say that you know
00:08:50.640 it doesn't mean that your style needs to
00:08:52.399 be
00:08:53.040 super super focused and for example i
00:08:56.080 showed you my black and white
00:08:57.519 illustrations but it's not the only
00:08:59.920 illustration style that i use
00:09:01.920 i like to use colors in some of my
00:09:04.399 illustrations i like to use
00:09:06.080 you know cartoons and characters and
00:09:08.320 make my illustrations feel more funny
00:09:10.160 and cute sometimes
00:09:11.519 and more surreal and weird in other
00:09:14.000 times
00:09:14.720 so i do feel like it's it's totally fine
00:09:17.120 to have
00:09:18.160 a range but um at least to have some
00:09:21.200 sort of a direction
00:09:23.040 for everything that you do and again
00:09:25.680 it's very personal i mean
00:09:27.040 some other people will feel like doing
00:09:29.279 just black and white work and focusing
00:09:31.279 just on that
00:09:32.399 is the thing that they wanna they wanna
00:09:34.720 do and just you know
00:09:36.080 be super focused other people like me
00:09:38.640 feel like
00:09:39.440 i mean i feel like i want to switch
00:09:41.680 things up
00:09:42.480 make things more interesting and more
00:09:44.800 flexible
00:09:45.839 and this is what works for me so again
00:09:48.880 it's totally personal
00:09:50.000 anyway i feel like the point of why do
00:09:52.240 we actually need a style
00:09:53.519 is pretty clear so um let's just move on
00:09:56.480 to the second part
00:09:57.519 of the talk
00:09:59.570 [Music]
00:09:59.740 [Applause]
00:10:01.920 okay so now let's talk about what is an
00:10:04.800 illustration style
00:10:06.160 and how you can actually make your
00:10:08.320 illustration style more
00:10:10.240 special and unique to you so um before
00:10:13.360 you begin i just want to say you know
00:10:14.880 this is not science
00:10:16.320 and of course this is just my own
00:10:17.920 personal take on this topic
00:10:20.160 so i'm sure there are different ways to
00:10:22.959 look at this thing but anyway i try to
00:10:24.880 come up with
00:10:26.079 um you know different elements that can
00:10:27.920 affect your style and i came up with
00:10:29.600 four different elements
00:10:31.120 and i want to share these with you so so
00:10:34.000 the first one is all technical
00:10:35.600 and it's about the tools that you use
00:10:38.079 for your illustrations
00:10:39.200 so it's very very basic and obvious so
00:10:42.000 i'm just gonna
00:10:42.880 show you one example of how you know
00:10:44.880 working with different tools
00:10:46.320 can affect your style this is very
00:10:48.800 simple and basic stuff so
00:10:50.880 i don't want to spend more time on it
00:10:53.680 but i did want to mention that and
00:10:55.680 i do think that this is like the least
00:10:58.240 important part
00:10:59.200 of developing your style it's it's about
00:11:02.480 the tools that you use
00:11:03.600 and i i feel like as a student this was
00:11:06.480 the only thing that i
00:11:08.000 thought about and i was always thinking
00:11:10.320 about the tools i was always thinking
00:11:11.839 about
00:11:13.200 this technical aspect where the truth is
00:11:15.760 it's actually just
00:11:16.720 one out of these four elements and it's
00:11:18.480 the least important one
00:11:20.079 and i think i wasted a lot of time just
00:11:22.399 thinking about
00:11:23.839 this thing instead of actually focusing
00:11:25.680 on the important stuff so
00:11:27.360 if you are doing the same i hope this
00:11:29.600 talk will
00:11:30.399 prevent you from keep obsessing about
00:11:32.560 the tools and
00:11:33.519 think about other things so anyway yeah
00:11:35.279 let's just move on to the
00:11:37.120 second element which is all about how
00:11:40.880 you actually draw
00:11:42.160 and the way that you actually tell a
00:11:44.160 story with
00:11:45.839 your drawings so this is a bit abstract
00:11:48.800 i guess
00:11:49.519 so i'm just gonna show you some examples
00:11:51.920 so the first one is is very simple i
00:11:53.760 mean you can see
00:11:54.880 how these two different illustrations
00:11:56.880 which are done with the same tools and
00:11:59.279 it's the same subject it's a portrait
00:12:01.600 and feeling
00:12:02.480 is totally different just because of the
00:12:05.519 way
00:12:06.079 that the artists use the tools and it's
00:12:09.200 the same tools but
00:12:10.320 just using them differently tells a
00:12:12.560 completely different story
00:12:14.079 and this is what i mean by how you draw
00:12:16.560 and how you can actually tell a story
00:12:18.399 with the way that you draw so i think
00:12:21.440 this topic is a bit overlooked and
00:12:24.480 sometimes
00:12:25.279 yeah just thinking about it remembering
00:12:27.040 this this thing can really affect your
00:12:29.440 style
00:12:30.480 i think it's important and another great
00:12:33.279 example would be the work of
00:12:35.279 carter goodrich which is an amazing
00:12:37.519 amazing illustrator and i really really
00:12:39.279 like his work
00:12:40.480 and here you can see for example a cover
00:12:43.360 that he made for the new yorker
00:12:45.200 and this illustration is talking about
00:12:48.560 how young graduates can't find work in
00:12:52.000 the market
00:12:52.639 and the industry is like full and there
00:12:54.560 isn't enough job openings
00:12:56.320 and the metaphor for the market
00:12:59.519 here is the subway that is just full
00:13:02.240 with people
00:13:03.279 so i think it's a lovely example of how
00:13:05.600 you can tell story just with a
00:13:06.959 composition
00:13:08.160 and you know there's such a big tension
00:13:10.160 between
00:13:11.200 you know the crowded subway and this
00:13:13.760 lonely guy
00:13:15.360 standing here all alone so i think that
00:13:17.680 just the composition here
00:13:19.120 is so powerful that it tells a story it
00:13:21.519 makes the story more powerful
00:13:23.440 that's what i'm trying to say and the
00:13:25.440 same thing can be said about the colors
00:13:27.200 i mean the focus of the colors
00:13:28.880 is the warm colors in the student or the
00:13:32.000 graduate hair
00:13:33.200 which is the warm the only warm area in
00:13:35.600 the illustration and then everything
00:13:36.959 else is very cold and uninviting
00:13:39.279 and it's these you know blue and purple
00:13:41.199 tones
00:13:42.320 in the subways so the colors just like
00:13:45.199 the composition
00:13:46.560 really emphasize the story and makes it
00:13:49.040 more
00:13:49.600 powerful so i think it's a great example
00:13:51.920 of how
00:13:52.720 just by you know the way that you draw
00:13:54.959 can really tell the story
00:13:56.639 and make your story more interesting so
00:13:59.199 here's another example of
00:14:00.560 carter's work and you can see again very
00:14:03.519 powerful
00:14:04.079 composition and the only white areas
00:14:07.199 are the seashell here everything else is
00:14:10.320 is not like 100 white and the red
00:14:13.360 like the powerful red red in the in the
00:14:16.240 child dress
00:14:17.199 and so the colors really attract your
00:14:19.920 attention to this area and the
00:14:21.440 composition is basically doing the same
00:14:24.079 and um and even the character design is
00:14:27.040 very unique and
00:14:27.920 powerful and the poses of the characters
00:14:30.160 everything tells a story
00:14:32.320 and everything makes the story more
00:14:34.399 powerful so
00:14:35.360 i really like these examples and i think
00:14:37.680 that eventually
00:14:38.959 you know what makes carter goodreads
00:14:40.880 style so exceptional
00:14:42.560 it's not the tools that he uses it's not
00:14:45.040 about
00:14:45.600 you know which pens or which brushes did
00:14:47.680 he use it's about
00:14:49.120 the way that he use colors and the way
00:14:52.000 that he used
00:14:52.560 the composition to tell a more
00:14:55.360 meaningful story
00:14:56.839 so i think that eventually you know i'm
00:14:59.839 trying to
00:15:00.399 break it down and make a tip for you out
00:15:02.720 of it so
00:15:03.680 whenever you feel like you're stuck with
00:15:05.519 your illustration work and you feel like
00:15:07.040 it's not
00:15:07.600 it's not working for you um try to think
00:15:10.240 about
00:15:10.720 how to add meaning to your illustration
00:15:12.399 with things like your composition you
00:15:14.639 know maybe you can try
00:15:15.519 different composition which is more
00:15:17.360 interesting maybe you can tell a better
00:15:19.360 story
00:15:20.240 just with your color palette and or
00:15:22.560 maybe your line work can be more
00:15:24.000 exciting
00:15:24.639 all of these different elements can
00:15:26.079 really affect your your style and
00:15:28.240 make your illustration better so try to
00:15:30.639 think about
00:15:31.279 these topics whenever you are working on
00:15:33.839 a new illustration
00:15:34.880 and hopefully this second element of how
00:15:37.519 you draw
00:15:39.199 gave you some ideas and things you can
00:15:41.519 think about
00:15:49.360 okay third one is about
00:15:52.399 what are you actually drawing and it's
00:15:54.399 about your subjects
00:15:56.079 so so i think a good example for this
00:15:58.720 would be
00:15:59.440 a classic example would be the work of
00:16:01.680 michelangelo
00:16:03.120 which is uh super famous for drawing
00:16:06.000 naked guys
00:16:07.040 even though like this is not the why is
00:16:09.440 so great
00:16:10.240 i mean being focused on a specific
00:16:13.440 subject maybe i mean it it might be
00:16:15.759 really really helpful for you
00:16:16.959 it might make you really good at a
00:16:20.399 specific thing that you're always
00:16:21.839 drawing i mean
00:16:22.720 and i think some artists are just super
00:16:25.279 famous for focusing just on one subject
00:16:27.519 and i think
00:16:28.639 maybe it will help you out as well um
00:16:31.040 for example
00:16:31.920 teagan white is always drawing it's not
00:16:34.240 the same subject but
00:16:35.360 it's it's uh she's always focusing on
00:16:38.079 animals
00:16:39.040 and plants and flowers and stuff like
00:16:41.120 that and
00:16:42.399 phoenix chan for example is always
00:16:45.360 drawing cats like 100
00:16:47.199 cats so i'm not saying you know you need
00:16:50.399 to draw just
00:16:51.279 100 just one subject forever
00:16:54.399 and just for example draw cats for the
00:16:56.720 rest of your life i think
00:16:57.920 this example is a bit too extreme and i
00:17:00.880 wouldn't want to
00:17:01.519 draw just one subject for the rest of my
00:17:04.799 life
00:17:05.199 but um i think it's it's good to focus
00:17:08.640 and maybe
00:17:09.439 um when which i think about it it's
00:17:11.439 almost like it's the same thing with
00:17:13.199 restaurants for example
00:17:15.039 most of like the good restaurants out
00:17:17.599 there are the restaurants that are known
00:17:19.599 for a specific
00:17:21.439 cuisine for example italian food or
00:17:23.839 french food
00:17:24.640 or maybe it's a fusion of two cuisines
00:17:26.720 but that's it
00:17:28.160 and most of like the shitty restaurants
00:17:30.240 where you don't want to eat
00:17:31.440 is the places where they have everything
00:17:33.360 on the menu from italian food to
00:17:36.640 american food and you know everything in
00:17:38.960 a one huge menu because when you do like
00:17:40.960 100 different dishes it doesn't make any
00:17:44.160 sense there's no way
00:17:45.600 you can make really good food with all
00:17:47.919 of your dishes so
00:17:49.440 i do think that eventually what i'm
00:17:51.039 trying to say out of all of these
00:17:52.320 examples
00:17:53.039 is that you need to focus on a specific
00:17:56.400 niche or focus on a specific subject and
00:18:00.400 even if it's for a short amount of time
00:18:03.200 i think it will be helpful
00:18:05.280 and what i mean by niche is you can
00:18:08.240 focus on
00:18:09.280 things like just drawing and designing
00:18:12.160 for beer labels
00:18:13.520 or you can focus on children books like
00:18:16.880 illustrated children books or
00:18:18.880 making illustrations for gaming for the
00:18:21.039 gaming industry
00:18:22.160 or making illustrations for animations
00:18:24.720 it doesn't really matter you can pick
00:18:26.160 your own niche
00:18:27.200 and just focus on it or pick a subject
00:18:29.679 and focus on it it's it's the same
00:18:31.919 and i think it could be really really
00:18:33.120 helpful and i already talked about it in
00:18:35.520 a previous video of mine and um
00:18:37.600 i really encourage you to try out the
00:18:39.919 100 days
00:18:41.120 challenge which basically means you you
00:18:43.520 pick a niche or like a specific subject
00:18:45.919 that you really want to get better at
00:18:47.760 and then for 100 days you draw one hour
00:18:50.799 a day and you focus
00:18:52.000 just on that so for example just beer
00:18:54.000 labels you draw and design
00:18:55.600 beer labels for 100 days and i think it
00:18:58.160 can have a great
00:18:59.039 impact on your portfolio and can help
00:19:02.240 you attract clients
00:19:03.679 that will come from this specific niche
00:19:05.760 once you get a little bit known for it
00:19:07.919 and then you can change things up and do
00:19:09.520 something completely different
00:19:11.200 but um focusing is the key and this is
00:19:13.919 what i want you to take
00:19:15.039 out of the third element so yeah let's
00:19:17.679 move on to the
00:19:18.720 last one
00:19:25.110 [Music]
00:19:28.000 so the last one is all about
00:19:31.120 why are you actually drawing it's about
00:19:33.679 your passion and your audience and
00:19:36.080 of course you know we're all in it for
00:19:38.480 the money we all want to make
00:19:39.679 a ton of money and be uh filthy rich but
00:19:43.600 i'm actually talking about something
00:19:45.520 else and it's you know it's about your
00:19:47.280 passion you know what
00:19:48.799 makes you excited about drawing what
00:19:50.960 what is it that you want to draw and
00:19:52.559 create
00:19:53.600 and what type of people you want to
00:19:55.360 connect with you know try to think about
00:19:57.440 your
00:19:57.840 your audience and um you know what makes
00:20:00.480 you
00:20:00.960 who you are what makes you weird and
00:20:02.640 special i think that these questions
00:20:05.360 can really help you understand and
00:20:08.080 develop your
00:20:08.960 your unique style because eventually
00:20:10.559 your style is
00:20:12.960 is very personal it's it's all about
00:20:14.720 your personality and who you are
00:20:16.960 and making making it clear and
00:20:19.679 communicating
00:20:20.880 them as much as you can from yourself
00:20:23.919 and your personality um with your
00:20:26.480 illustrations
00:20:27.360 so i think the best way i mean it's it's
00:20:29.520 nothing fancy it's nothing complicated
00:20:31.760 it's all about thinking about the topics
00:20:34.159 that you are interested in
00:20:35.760 the things that make you excited and
00:20:38.000 then try to connect
00:20:39.440 the dots and you can almost almost come
00:20:43.039 up with
00:20:43.600 i mean it's almost like a dna you can
00:20:46.080 come up with your illustration dna
00:20:48.480 based on your experiences and the thing
00:20:50.960 that you like
00:20:51.760 and the things you are passionate about
00:20:53.679 so i think that
00:20:55.600 eventually you know this is the big
00:20:57.200 question this is the the
00:20:58.960 the big why question and you need to
00:21:01.919 answer it yourself nobody can tell you
00:21:04.559 what's the right answer here but it's
00:21:06.559 all about
00:21:07.919 what you like what you like and what
00:21:09.919 you're excited about
00:21:11.440 and and this is how you can find your
00:21:13.200 own illustration dna and if you can
00:21:15.440 apply this dna
00:21:16.799 to all of your illustrations eventually
00:21:19.440 it will
00:21:20.080 create a style that is unique to you and
00:21:23.679 this brings me to the last part of the
00:21:26.000 talk today which is
00:21:28.000 about how i personally came up with my
00:21:31.200 own
00:21:32.000 illustration style so i want to try and
00:21:33.840 share with you you know my own personal
00:21:35.520 story
00:21:36.400 and tell you all about it
00:21:46.400 so i want to begin with this very
00:21:47.840 embarrassing picture of mine
00:21:49.679 and yeah this is me and my brother and
00:21:52.400 yeah we're very excited about this bear
00:21:54.799 and i i think i was working on a
00:21:57.280 different talk about illustration
00:21:58.960 um like a few years ago and i found this
00:22:02.480 picture and i remember like finding this
00:22:05.360 picture and then
00:22:06.400 boom you know it clicked everything
00:22:08.640 connected
00:22:09.440 and um everything made sense for me i
00:22:12.400 was working on this
00:22:13.440 illustration at the same time so it all
00:22:16.320 made sense
00:22:17.039 and i realized that there's a huge
00:22:19.120 impact
00:22:20.159 from my childhood on you know my
00:22:21.840 illustration style
00:22:23.280 and for me this image represents this
00:22:25.600 photo represents
00:22:27.280 the fact that i actually grew up outside
00:22:29.200 of the city i grew up in a very small
00:22:31.280 place
00:22:31.840 in the countryside and we were always
00:22:34.159 like surrounded with nature
00:22:35.840 and we had a ton of animals around us
00:22:38.400 when
00:22:38.960 we were kids we didn't have a bear
00:22:42.080 sadly but we had a lot of other cool
00:22:44.159 animals so
00:22:45.600 for me you know the cha my childhood you
00:22:47.360 know being connected to nature and
00:22:48.640 animals and all that stuff
00:22:50.000 i think it's really um something that is
00:22:53.200 always
00:22:54.080 there for me in the background whenever
00:22:56.000 i draw and you can see
00:22:57.919 like most of my illustration work is is
00:23:00.720 connected somehow to nature and animals
00:23:02.640 and stuff like that
00:23:03.600 so once i found this picture i started
00:23:05.919 to think about
00:23:08.080 other things that influence my style and
00:23:10.480 try i try to came up with
00:23:12.400 and find you know the things that impact
00:23:14.720 my illustration style
00:23:16.400 and then i realized that even though i
00:23:18.559 grew up in israel
00:23:20.000 my mother is from belgium and we always
00:23:22.720 had a lot of
00:23:23.520 belgian comics in our house and we had
00:23:26.320 all of the tintin books
00:23:28.080 in our house and even though i couldn't
00:23:29.760 read and i didn't really understand
00:23:31.840 french
00:23:32.559 i just looked at the pictures um and and
00:23:35.600 you know looked at all of these books
00:23:37.600 and when i think about it today it has
00:23:39.919 a huge impact on the way that i use
00:23:43.279 colors nowadays and the way i draw
00:23:45.679 characters
00:23:46.799 and especially the more colorful and fun
00:23:49.679 and cartoony style of my
00:23:51.279 illustrations i mean i do have a range
00:23:53.760 of different styles
00:23:55.039 so i feel like this side you know these
00:23:57.919 type of works
00:23:59.039 are really really inspired by and you
00:24:01.360 know based on
00:24:02.880 the works and the style of tintin and
00:24:05.919 even though it's a bit different i mean
00:24:07.279 i definitely feel the connection
00:24:09.279 so this definitely had a huge impact on
00:24:12.240 the way that
00:24:13.200 i draw even today and and when i think
00:24:16.559 about it
00:24:17.279 i do have some more influences so
00:24:19.760 slightly later
00:24:20.960 when i was a teenager i discovered
00:24:23.440 dragon ball z
00:24:24.320 for the first time and it totally blew
00:24:26.159 my mind i mean we didn't have any manga
00:24:28.400 and anime
00:24:29.440 and there wasn't any anime like japanese
00:24:31.760 anime on tv we have
00:24:33.440 mostly like american and european stuff
00:24:35.760 on tv back then
00:24:37.039 so i actually downloaded the
00:24:40.080 episodes like super slowly from the
00:24:42.320 internet because it was very
00:24:43.840 uh a long time ago so i remember it was
00:24:47.520 it just felt completely different i mean
00:24:49.600 the plot the characters the story
00:24:52.000 um the colors the music everything is
00:24:54.080 completely different
00:24:55.440 and unique and it has this huge impact
00:24:58.559 on me as a teenager
00:25:00.080 and i was obsessed with it and then
00:25:02.640 because of dragon ball z
00:25:04.080 i actually discovered this whole
00:25:05.760 japanese manga and anime world
00:25:08.400 and it opened the door for me and i
00:25:10.320 guess these are the things that i was
00:25:12.480 mostly into as a teenager and you know
00:25:14.960 slightly later
00:25:15.840 so so naruto and death note and movies
00:25:18.960 like akira and ghost in the shell
00:25:20.960 these things really really had a huge
00:25:22.960 impact on me
00:25:24.080 growing up and eventually these are the
00:25:26.640 things that actually pushed me
00:25:28.480 towards studying graphic design and
00:25:30.640 illustration so
00:25:31.840 so it definitely had a big impact on
00:25:34.960 my illustration work and then as a
00:25:37.200 student i
00:25:38.320 i actually discovered amazing artists
00:25:41.440 like jeff soto
00:25:42.480 which i already showed you a little bit
00:25:44.320 before and
00:25:45.520 other artists like yeah studio and
00:25:48.080 macbeth
00:25:48.799 and drew millward and all of these
00:25:50.880 artists are
00:25:52.559 i mean i i discovered their work as a
00:25:54.640 student and they had a huge
00:25:56.640 impact on me and i felt like it's like
00:25:59.120 it's almost like a lost
00:26:00.320 family at least i mean i felt like i
00:26:02.559 really connect with this type of
00:26:04.000 illustrations
00:26:05.120 and this is my home this is like the the
00:26:07.600 place i wanna
00:26:08.480 connect with so eventually i actually
00:26:11.840 realized that you know most of these
00:26:13.520 artists
00:26:14.159 all of these artists actually use screen
00:26:16.559 printing in some of the work
00:26:18.559 and that's why the work is usually just
00:26:21.600 like one or two
00:26:22.720 different colors and then i actually
00:26:24.559 realized there's a screen printing
00:26:27.360 workshop in my university so i actually
00:26:30.000 got to practice it a little bit
00:26:32.000 and these are actually the two big
00:26:35.200 images here
00:26:36.159 are actually prince from the screen
00:26:38.640 printing workshop
00:26:39.919 and these two are the digital works but
00:26:43.360 again they are based on on this approach
00:26:45.679 of working with just
00:26:46.880 like two or just one color so
00:26:50.480 i feel like you know looking at these
00:26:52.080 artists trying you know to to make
00:26:54.720 screen printing works in the workshop
00:26:57.520 and
00:26:58.240 everything combined together with my
00:27:00.159 love to manga and anime
00:27:01.679 everything together uh connected into at
00:27:04.640 the beginning of uh
00:27:06.320 this the style of my illustrations so
00:27:08.640 this is like the very beginning
00:27:10.640 i was still a student making this but i
00:27:12.880 felt like this is the first time
00:27:14.640 things started to connect and i felt
00:27:16.080 like i have a direction
00:27:18.000 that i want to explore with my my work
00:27:21.200 so again these are from the last year in
00:27:23.840 the academy
00:27:24.640 at the university and these are digital
00:27:27.360 works but again i feel like it's
00:27:29.039 it's in the same direction and you can
00:27:30.960 again see
00:27:32.320 there's a big influence from japan and
00:27:35.679 as i was working on these i actually
00:27:37.440 discovered the amazing
00:27:39.600 uh works from japanese artists like from
00:27:42.640 like 400 years ago
00:27:44.399 which is uh like the wood block prints
00:27:46.640 from japan
00:27:48.000 which is something i didn't know before
00:27:50.159 and it
00:27:51.120 completely like blew my mind and again
00:27:53.840 connected with my love to manga and
00:27:55.600 anime
00:27:56.480 from my teenage years so all of these
00:27:59.919 things together
00:28:00.799 i guess influenced my work and
00:28:03.520 eventually you know when i look at it
00:28:05.360 now
00:28:05.760 i mean these are this is my dna this is
00:28:08.000 how
00:28:08.799 i came up with my dna for illustration
00:28:12.480 work
00:28:13.120 all of these things together eventually
00:28:15.840 it's a mix of everything that i like and
00:28:17.840 everything that inspires me
00:28:19.440 and i'm passionate about so these are
00:28:22.720 still works
00:28:24.080 from the the last year in the university
00:28:27.919 and you know i kept on working i kept
00:28:29.840 working as a freelancer
00:28:31.360 i kept practicing my skills and with
00:28:33.600 time my works got
00:28:35.039 better and better and sometimes you can
00:28:37.919 see
00:28:38.559 there's like a lot of japanese influence
00:28:40.559 in my work
00:28:41.760 sometimes you can see there's more
00:28:44.720 animals
00:28:45.600 and nature and these type of
00:28:48.480 inspirations
00:28:49.520 into my work so i mean i don't use the
00:28:52.159 same amount of
00:28:53.760 different references in all of my work
00:28:55.679 but it's always there it's always in the
00:28:57.200 background
00:28:58.159 and and i always try to mix between all
00:29:01.360 of these
00:29:01.840 things that i really inspired by and
00:29:04.080 create
00:29:04.880 new and interesting work and and i also
00:29:07.440 yeah
00:29:08.159 and of course i want to try and and
00:29:10.159 explore new things and try new
00:29:12.159 directions from time to time
00:29:13.760 and make my work even more crazy and
00:29:15.840 unique with time so
00:29:18.080 these are like just some some examples
00:29:20.399 of my recent works
00:29:22.720 and eventually you know what i just show
00:29:25.360 you are it's it's a lot of different
00:29:26.880 works
00:29:27.679 and it feels like it's super fast you
00:29:29.520 know i just went over everything in like
00:29:31.840 two minutes but it's actually five years
00:29:34.399 of work
00:29:35.600 and it's a process it's a long process
00:29:37.600 you know developing your style
00:29:39.279 it's it's more of a marathon it's not a
00:29:41.360 sprint
00:29:42.320 it's not about your next one
00:29:44.240 illustration
00:29:45.440 it's never the case you know never think
00:29:47.200 that okay the next illustration
00:29:48.960 this is it i'm gonna find my style it's
00:29:51.200 never it never works like this it's it's
00:29:53.279 more of a process
00:29:54.559 it's a long process and once you create
00:29:57.039 50 or 100 different illustrations
00:29:59.440 you can actually look back and
00:30:01.279 understand what worked what didn't work
00:30:03.520 and focus on you know the things that
00:30:06.320 you are the most passionate about
00:30:08.000 i don't feel like i actually have my own
00:30:10.960 style yet i feel like my style is very
00:30:13.279 all over the place very messy but i
00:30:15.200 guess you know nowadays a lot of people
00:30:17.120 ask me about it so i guess
00:30:19.120 it does have a certain direction because
00:30:22.240 other people see it more clearly than me
00:30:24.080 i guess
00:30:24.559 maybe it's easier to look at a style
00:30:26.559 from from afar and
00:30:28.880 it's always hard to judge your own
00:30:30.480 personal work i guess
00:30:31.919 so i do feel like i have like a certain
00:30:34.559 direction but i definitely feel like
00:30:36.480 i need to keep on exploring keep on
00:30:38.799 creating and learn so much so
00:30:41.520 um yeah it's always a process it's a
00:30:43.679 never-ending process i guess
00:30:45.600 and this is where i am today
00:30:49.039 and well to sum things up these are the
00:30:51.919 four
00:30:52.720 different elements that i think can be
00:30:54.799 really really helpful for you guys to
00:30:56.240 think about
00:30:57.279 when you're working on your
00:30:58.320 illustrations and
00:31:00.559 i mean you get to choose on what to
00:31:02.000 focus you don't have to focus on
00:31:03.600 everything
00:31:04.480 all at the same time and you know take
00:31:06.799 your time
00:31:07.919 try focusing on maybe just one of these
00:31:11.360 and see if it helps and if there's only
00:31:13.279 one tip i can give you from
00:31:14.960 this entire talk it would be to just
00:31:17.519 don't focus on the first one
00:31:18.799 don't focus on the tools and the
00:31:20.080 technical side i think it's the least
00:31:22.080 important one
00:31:23.600 especially at the beginning of your
00:31:25.440 process
00:31:26.960 if you're still searching for your style
00:31:28.880 i think you need to focus on
00:31:30.399 the other three elements and you'll get
00:31:33.200 so much out of it
00:31:34.640 than just focusing on the tools so this
00:31:37.760 is it i really hope this video was
00:31:39.519 helpful for you guys i'd love to hear
00:31:41.120 your thoughts
00:31:41.919 let me know in the comments if you like
00:31:43.360 it if you have any other suggestions and
00:31:45.440 things that help you out
00:31:46.880 with your illustration style i'd love to
00:31:48.960 hear your thoughts
00:31:50.000 so uh yeah comment like this video and
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00:31:58.880 and that's it guys i'll see you next
00:32:00.559 time bye