Colorful City Portraits: Illustrate Your Favorite Place
Influences
A course by Alex Foster , Illustrator
Joined October 2020
About the video: Influences
Overview
“ I’ll show you some of my favourite books and artists, and why I like them and how they’ve influenced me. I’ll also mention podcasts and shows that I like to listen to while working.”
In this video lesson Alex Foster addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Colorful City Portraits: Illustrate Your Favorite Place. Capture the essence of the place you love using mixed digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences I have loads of inspirations from illustrators and creatives, I'll show you some of them in this lesson. Firstly, I'm gonna talk about one of my favourite illustrators called William Grill. I love William Grill's work so much because he uses lots of colour pencils and it gives you the hand-drawn pencil look that I like to talk about. This is "Shackleton's Journey" and it's about Ernest Shackleton's adventure to the Antarctic and crashing halfway and the struggles that they face. The best way to talk about this book is I'll show you some. I like illustrated end papers, it's a nice...”
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Course summary for: Colorful City Portraits: Illustrate Your Favorite Place
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Infographics, Traditional illustration
Alex Foster
A course by Alex Foster
Alex Foster is a freelance illustrator from Margate, UK who specializes in map illustration and children’s illustration. He is known for launching a personalized House Portrait service on his online shop, where customers can request a custom illustration of their home. He has created over 400 House Portraits, and regularly updates his online shop with limited edition print collections of maps and city portraits.
His list of clients include Penguin Random House, Air Canada, American Express, Airbnb, Expedia, and English Heritage. Alex has been exhibited internationally and has received a World Illustration Award from the Association of Illustrators in 2015.
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