Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Drawing from Multiple Reference Sources
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Drawing from Multiple Reference Sources
Overview
“I will show you how the place you are going to draw doesn’t have to be from a single image source. You can compile a drawing based on several reference points and bring in elements that don’t actually exist in that location.”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Drawing from Multiple Reference Sources, 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
“Drawing From Multiple Reference Sources In this lesson, I'm gonna talk more specifically about the figuration and how you can use figures in the drawing to create stories and narratives. Sometimes when I've looked at reference for places, the photograph or the photographer has chosen already these narrative devices. I actually prefer not to go along with that way of working because the photographer is the author of that story, so I prefer to choose a location and then bring in my own actors to the location myself. Specifically in this image of Salvador, what I like is the different levels, ...”
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Course summary for: Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
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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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