Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Introduction to Editorial Travel Illustration
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Introduction to Editorial Travel Illustration
Overview
“In this course, my aim is to show how I create travel illustrations that have a sense of place and atmosphere from photographic references found on the internet and your own photographs of the location. I will talk about creating a sense of place and atmosphere through the use of colour and tone in different layers of Photoshop. Applying your own experience of places you love or places you want to visit, we will create an illustration with our own vision. This may involve using a mixture of references from different sources and trying to draw on memory as well. ”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Introduction to Editorial Travel Illustration, 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
“Introduction To Editorial Travel Illustration In this lesson, I'll introduce you to the notion of travel illustration and how I choose reference to create a sense of place and atmosphere in the location I'm choosing. I'll take you through the way that I look at images and use them as a springboard for the final piece. Try not to be too specific about how I would copy details in the photography and how I'll have them on the side until a certain point when I'll actually leave them alone and the illustration takes off on its own or has its own life and not reference too much the photograph. I'...”
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Course summary for: Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
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Category
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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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