Please welcome special guest co-host for the week, Dominic Sedillo!!! *applause and cheering*
Quick rundown on Mr. Dominic Sedillo:
Dominic is an illustrator. He’s been drawing since he was “knee high to a duck” #what????? He draws stuff. Like really good stuff. He is the senior illustrator and branding assistant for a privately owned drink company.
6:05 Dominic has a good amount of side hustle stuff. (He’s a hustler, baby… but not that kind of hustler; he’s a self-proclaimed “Digital Hustler”.) He’s working on a publishing a few books, one of those things being a collection of illustrations from Inktober, which is a 31 day drawing challenge for illustrators.
6:50 Dominic LOVES everything horror. Like, you most likely cannot beat him in a horror trivia night.
6:53 He wrote and illustrated a zombie book that YOU can get at mrwormfood.com.
7:26 He’s also working on sketch notes book. What are sketch notes? Sketch notes are graphic recordings. You know when you take notes in a lecture, and then you look over to to your neighbor and their “notes” have a bunch of incredible drawings all over it along with the words that the teacher is saying… so you try to put your arm over your notes because you all of the sudden realize how lame yours are? He’s making a book of those.
9:24 Dominic week: Work is cRaZzZaAy, but so much fun.
12:10 Interesting fact: Dominic does not fix things (we’re assuming around the house.)
12:54 His song for the week: Carly Rae Jepsen, “Higher”
14:45 Dominic is a walking contradiction. He <3’s horror and all of these super niche things, but then also super loves pop music. Here you can listen to his wild-yet-organized tangent on this song.
18:18 ROUND BACON. No one understands it. Also, why is it a thing on pizza? Gross.
18:30 Brandi’s week: Brandi saw Vesperteen in concert, a book binding workshop
20:00 A good pun is said here.
20:45: Brandi’s song for the week: Foo Fighters, “The Sky is a Neighborhood”
****QUESTION OF THE WEEK******
24:20 “Did you do that in the computer?”
25:20 What are they actually asking? When someone asks you this question, it’s because they don’t understand the process of what you are doing. So what they’re asking really is, “How did you do this? Did you really draw this on the computer and then let it fix all of the parts that didn’t look right?”
28:00 Digital art has a stigma that there isn’t as much skill involved, but that couldn’t be more wrong. “Machines only do what you tell them to do”
29:30 Brandi and Dominic agree: Adobe Illustrator > Photoshop
33:00 Regardless of whether you are using a digital tablet or a paper tablet, the iterative process is important. As a creative, you are going on a journey to get to where you need to be.
34:00 Remember, your first idea MIGHT be the best idea, but you shouldn’t ever go for it unless you’ve gone over other idea’s too!
35:57 Dominic talks about this a bit more in his blog here.
46:42 How to answer someone what they ask this question: Explain to them (in english, pls) the basics of your process. i.e. “I started off doing this, and then I did this, and then i moved into this program, blah blah blah…”
38:00 Never show them the sketch without the final drawing. They might just think you’re messing around. However, you can show them the sketch along with the final drawing, and it helps them connect the dots.
40:43 Have an elevator pitch as to “how you did this”.
41:46 Made up word of the week by Brandi: Vamango. It’s in shampoo, but only Dominic’s shampoo.
Find us on all forms of social media via @BrandiSea!: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and you can email us any questions you want Brandi to cover at brandi@brandisea.com. Thanks to Vesperteen for letting us use his genius (“Shatter in The Night”) in every episode of Design Speaks!
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