Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Making a Mental Map and Thumbnail Sketches 1
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Making a Mental Map and Thumbnail Sketches 1
Overview
“I will take you through my process of creating a travel illustration based on a location, using photographic reference and your imagination to personalise the scene.”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Making a Mental Map and Thumbnail Sketches 1, 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
“Making a Mental Map and Thumbnail Sketches Now, I'm gonna talk about how I sketch from my choice of references and how I construct a sketch based on those reference points from different perspectives. I'll also then bring in figuration into the sketch, which will then lead to the narrative elements in the image. I'm going straight across to pencil and rubber and I'm going to start by constructing the image, dividing up the space into shapes. The perspective I'm looking at for my project is looking down a hill and through a perspective line roughly in the middle of the image. If I look at my...”
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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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