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Artistic Illustration: Draw from Your Imagination

A course by Fito Espinosa , Painter, illustrator, and plastic artist

Painter, illustrator, and plastic artist. Lima District, Peru.
Joined July 2019

Connect with your emotions and learn to depict them in symbolical and personal pictures

Best seller
99% positive reviews (932)
22,440 students
Audio: Spanish, English
Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · Italian · French · Polish · Dutch

Connect with your emotions and learn to depict them in symbolical and personal pictures

Artistic illustration is a powerful tool that allows you to explore your inner world and express it to the world through images. Peruvian painter, illustrator, and visual artist, Fito Espinosa, delves into his thoughts and emotions to translate them to accessible symbolic images, aimed at understanding ourselves and the world we live in.

In this course, Fito Espinosa teaches how to illustrate by connecting with your emotions and personal ideas. He explains step-by-step how to start from an idea or intuition to achieve a more poetic creation, creating sketches and developing images that express your imagination and unique point of view.

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What will you learn in this online course?

13 lessons & 6 downloads

Connect with yourself
10 minutes, 18 seconds
The image and the text
9 minutes, 13 seconds
Sketching on card
12 minutes, 58 seconds
Color part 1
11 minutes, 0 seconds
Color part 2
11 minutes, 56 seconds
Inked part 1
10 minutes, 6 seconds
  • 99% positive reviews (932)
  • 22,440 students
  • 13 lessons (1h 58m)
  • 6 additional resources (0 files)
  • Online and at your own pace
  • Available on the app
  • Audio: Spanish, English
  • Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · Italian · French · Polish · Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
  • Unlimited access forever

What is this course's project?

Make a painted and outlined illustration, based on a very personal idea, that is connected to a moment or emotion relevant to you.

Projects by course students

Who is this online course for?

This course is aimed at anyone who draws and wants to learn how to express their imagination through Fito's method.

Requirements and materials

You will only need basic drawing skills and a lot of motivation. Regarding materials, you’ll need a pencil, eraser, cardboard, acrylics, brushes, and a marker or black ink pen.


Reviews

22,440 Students
932 Reviews
99% Positive ratings

Fito Espinosa

A course by Fito Espinosa

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Painter, illustrator, and plastic artist

Fito Espinosa has been painting and drawing for 25 years. In recent years, he has focused on developing images for different communication campaigns. In his work, he explores the emotional and mental worlds to translate them into images oriented to the search and understanding of the world and ourselves.

As a visual artist, he has exhibited his work on more than ten individual exhibitions and as many collective ones and has won several painting competitions. He has published five books of his own and has done innumerable illustrations for magazines, newspapers, and various publications, as well as for communication campaigns. In addition, he has an extensive line of engravings and another line of ceramics. His work can be found in his gallery located in Miraflores, Lima; also in other galleries, design shops, and on his website.


Content

  • U1

    Introduction

    • Who I am
    • Influences
    • What will we do during the course?
  • U2

    Lowering ideas

    • Connect with yourself
    • Think and feel
    • The image and the text
  • U3

    Let's do it

    • Sketching on card
    • Color part 1
    • Color part 2
    • Inked part 1
    • Inked part 2
  • U4

    A style, a universe

    • Not just a drawing, but a world of its own
    • Tell a story
  • FP

    Final project

    • Final project

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    Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.

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FAQs

Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.

All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.

The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.

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Artistic Illustration: Draw from Your Imagination. Illustration course by Fito Espinosa Best seller

Artistic Illustration: Draw from Your Imagination

A course by Fito Espinosa
Painter, illustrator, and plastic artist. Lima District, Peru.
Joined July 2019
  • 99% positive reviews (932)
  • 22,440 students