Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
About Me
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson, I will take you through some of my background and how I became an illustrator.”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place. Learn digital illustration techniques with a splash of acrylic paint to create artwork inspired by a photograph of a place you love .
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me My name is Alex Green. I'm a freelance illustrator and I've been working for around 28 years now. I've worked in all areas of illustration from live events, design, print, newspapers, poster design, GIF animation. I've worked across the world in all areas. I grew up in Kentish Town in North London in a place called Queens Crescent, which is this very kind of grey concreted area. I grew up next to a factory. Into the night, you could hear the steam press from the factory windows. The saving grace of the area was the fact that just up the road, literally five minutes, there's a city ...”
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Course summary for: Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Acrylic Painting, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Alex Green
A course by Alex Green
Alex Green is a British illustrator with three decades of experience. Growing up in an artistic family before the age of the internet, his work is heavily influenced by mixed media illustration. After studying fine art in the University of West England, his illustration career began in 1992 at The Observer, where he illustrated the British newspaper’s wine column.
Since then, he’s done freelance work creating architectural, editorial and travel illustrations for clients like Airbnb, Apple, Audi, BBC, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Emirates Airlines, The Ritz, Gucci, Guinness, Pfizer, Prada, Harrods, Nespresso, and universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. His work has also been featured in publications like The Telegraph, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, G.Q Magazine, and Le Parisien and has also collaborated with Penguin Random House.
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