Colorful City Portraits: Illustrate Your Favorite Place
Drawing Buildings
A course by Alex Foster , Illustrator
Joined October 2020
About the video: Drawing Buildings
Overview
“In this lesson, we will use the rough as a guide and start drawing our buildings. We aren’t thinking about colour necessarily just yet, just focusing on the drawing aspect.”
In this video lesson Alex Foster addresses the topic: Drawing Buildings, 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
“Drawing Buildings Now we've got our rough as a guide, we'll start to draw the buildings and just focus on the shapes and building up the layers, we won't be thinking about colour yet, just on the drawing. Let's take a look. Now we're ready to start some drawing. We've got the rough in here, it's quite low opacity, so we're ready to draw over it. I need to explain my weird, layer-based way of working. It's gonna seem strange because I'll draw all the layers, almost like screen-printing, all the pieces on each layer, and I'll colour them afterwards. So, if you're doing it the way I'm doing it...”
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Course summary for: Colorful City Portraits: Illustrate Your Favorite Place
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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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