Conceptual Illustration: Big Ideas in a Single Image

Detailed Digital Drawing 2

A course by Lennart Gäbel , Conceptual Illustrator

95% positive reviews (82)

1,917 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Detailed Digital Drawing 2

Overview

“Let's continue to work on our digital drawing. I will show you how to incorporate tiny details and set up layers to bring your illustration to life.”

In this video lesson Lennart Gäbel addresses the topic: Detailed Digital Drawing 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Conceptual Illustration: Big Ideas in a Single Image. Discover how to generate powerful ideas and translate them into compelling illustrations that attract your dream clients.

Partial transcription of the video

“Detailed Digital Drawing Now comes the hard part, the dollar bill. More to do with the hundred-dollar bill, so extra layer, definitely. We know for sure... Do we? Let's see. Maybe she grabs here and there? Yeah, that's stronger, I think. This is like a straight line as well. Here it's not that straight. This is like, he really lays on top. Here's the arm as well, kind of like this. It's weird that she pulls here so hard and here, down there, it's so loose, so I'm going to... Ok, after all, we want to know where his body is at and that it's around about here, here, one leg up here. One leg h...”

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Course summary for: Conceptual Illustration: Big Ideas in a Single Image

Level: Beginner
95% positive reviews (82)
1917 students
4 units
16 lessons (3h 59m)
6 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Designer
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration

Lennart Gäbel

A course by Lennart Gäbel

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Conceptual Illustrator

Lennart Gäbel is a conceptual illustrator from Germany. After studying economics at university he took a job in marketing but his strong interest in drawing and creativity prevailed and he quit his job to study illustration at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam. An exchange program took him to the School of Visual Art in New York City and this is where Lennart truly discovered his style.

His illustration of Donald Trump, which he shared on Facebook prior to the 2016 US election, was shared globally in newspapers, blogs and in demonstration imagery. Since then he’s worked for numerous clients including Playboy, Huffington Post, Volkswagen, and Der Spiegel. One of his covers for Der Spiegel also saw him win Germany’s Cover of the Year in 2018.