Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Traveling While Sitting Still
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Traveling While Sitting Still
Overview
“Now I’ve given you an overview of what we’re trying to achieve. It’s time to start your project. This is where you start deciding where you want to go in your drawing. Using your experience and desire to create your version of a sense of place.”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Traveling While Sitting Still, 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
“Traveling While Sitting Still Now I'm going to talk about how you find reference for your project and how you'd search various locations for that reference, be it Google, Flickr, any site that you can think of, specifically in this case, that you can find photography that is non-professional. What I look for is always a balance of professional photography, holiday snaps, and really uncomposed photographs of the area. Also, I choose to go to Google maps and zoom in to Street View. You can basically build a picture of the location from different angles and different perspectives. The most imp...”
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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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