Architectural Illustration: Capture a City’s Personality
Scanning and Combining All the Elements 3
A course by Carlo Stanga , Illustrator and Architect
About the video: Scanning and Combining All the Elements 3
Overview
“This unit is about how we can add some more elements to continue with the creation of our illustration always taking in count the little details. It is important to pay special attention to the whites in the different elements of our illustration and its sizes.”
In this video lesson Carlo Stanga addresses the topic: Scanning and Combining All the Elements 3, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Illustration: Capture a City’s Personality. Depict a cityscape using digital and analog techniques to find your own illustration style.
Partial transcription of the video
“SCANNING AND COMBINING ALL THE ELEMENTS I select this and I erase everything. I erase all the parts that are useless for us. Maybe it's better to turn off Contiguous and select all the white part, and keep only the white part with the Lasso. We want to keep also this white, and this white. The rest will be erased. We put this lamp behind. We'll go again to the other lamps, and we do the same thing every time, copy and paste, copy and paste. I go behind the lamp. This is not the lamp, but the wall. It was a mistake to call it Lamp. And so I copy this, that is now smaller. As always, I select...”
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Course summary for: Architectural Illustration: Capture a City’s Personality
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Architecture, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

Carlo Stanga
A course by Carlo Stanga
Italian artist Carlo Stanga’s illustration career combines his three passions: architecture, illustration, and travels. After studying Architecture in the Politecnico di Milano, he furthered his studies in Art and Design, which led him to work with major Italian magazines and newspapers, as well as international clients in Europe and the U.S.
After several years working in Architecture and Illustration separately, Carlo merged his two professions and became a leading expert in Architectural Illustration. He recently published a series of books with Moleskine, telling the illustrated story of 3 major cities: I am New York, I am Milan, and I am London, where he takes the reader on an immersive journey through each city, with illustrations of architecture, anecdotes, and the character that defines each city.
In 2019, he was a runner-up in the Creative Quarterly 55 for his illustration work in the book I am New York, and obtained the American Illustration Award 38. He holds a large number of awards for his work and has held personal exhibitions in New York and Milan. His long list of clients includes Trussardi, Moleskine, Lufthansa, Nestlé, Missoni, and more.
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