Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place

Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place

“Thank you for participating in my course! I hope you learn some of how I research and invent a place and bring it to life in a personal way in the drawing. These are the five key steps you have to carry out to produce the project. Take a look at it: 1. Take time to decide which location you want to draw. What is the general feeling you are trying to get across from that location? Is it hot or cold, are there people, and are they busy working or relaxing? Try to create interesting, dynamic angles that can create some drama and dynamism within the Illustration. 2. Sketch out small A5 drawings from different angles using the reference that you have collated in the area. Block intones in pencil and thinks of ways of breaking those tones up with objects in front. Remember the shapes and tones created within the drawing. This is the basis of a successful sketch and will make the application of colour to the image more successful. 3. Once a palette has been decided. Make sure to separate the layers into single colours of 50% versions of the colour and work at overlaying the colours to create secondary overlap colours. Try to be fairly general at the beginning and not work too far with any one layer as you go along. The idea is to start to feel your way through the palette and balance out the colours in the layers and then slowly work through each layer refining the balance of colour, light and shade through the image. 4. When you are happy with the scene and feel you have described everything in as much detail as you want. Ask yourself where the focal attention is in the image. Are areas of the image primary or secondary to the narrative of mood. 5. Lastly, flatten the image and ‘save as" a jpeg. You must save as rather than flatten and save the Photoshop document as you never know if you will want to modify the image in the future. You can then adjust the overall image as a whole rather than certain layers. This can unify the image further but be careful not to lose all the subtleties in the layered file. Before leaving, I want to show you what I wish to see in your Final Project.

If you doubt, don't forget to use the forum and don't miss the chance to build a community by commenting on your colleagues' works. See you on the forum!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project Thanks for participating in my course on travel illustration. I hope you've learned from the ways that I research images and bring that research in to create an illustration that has a sense of place. Remember, my example is just a launch pad for your own imagination. Look back into your childhood, your favourite holidays, and research those locations either with your own photography or photography you found on the internet, bring your experience to the project, because that's what will make you happy in the end and that's what will bring relevance to the drawing. We can all r...”

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Course summary for: Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (56)
• 1515 students
• 4 units
• 23 lessons (5h 21m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Acrylic Painting, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration