Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Materials and Software
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Materials and Software
Overview
“In this lesson, I will take you through all the materials and applications you will need for this course. ”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Materials and Software, 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
“Materials and Software In this section, I'm gonna introduce you to the materials I use for my course. Despite the fact that I'm gonna be using a Wacom tablet or an iPad to complete the whole project, I always like to start on paper because it's much more relaxing and freeing to work on paper rather than in a digital format, in my opinion. What I do when I'm working, especially commercially and for concepting ideas, I use standard photocopy paper, standard A4 paper. I can tear it, I can fold it into quarters to get smaller drawings, subdivide. I find it's more freeing to work in that medium ...”
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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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