Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Influences
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I'll show you the things I love, the artists I admire the most and how they have influenced the way I Illustration has developed by taking them apart technically.”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Influences , 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
“Influences In this lesson, I'll talk about artists who have most influenced my work over the years. I'm gonna start with author illustrator called Miroslav Šašek, who was a Czech refugee to the United States and he did this amazing series of books, "This Is", which is, effectively, an introduction to a particular location. Here I have "This is San Francisco". The one I had earlier on was "This is London". There are many things I like about Miroslav Šašek. In terms of his technique, I really like the way he uses abstraction in images. So, certain areas will be technically correct, in this im...”
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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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