Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Scan into Photoshop and Start Composition
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Scan into Photoshop and Start Composition
Overview
“In this section, I will talk about how to bring our analogue sketch into Photoshop through photography and how the direction of the light in the photo affects the process. ”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Scan into Photoshop and Start Composition, 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
“Scan into Photoshop and Start Composition In this lesson, I'm gonna talk about taking photographs of the sketches that we've done for the project and taking them into Photoshop. At this stage, I like to take particular attention when I take the photographs with an iPad or an iPhone or any phone camera, to look at the angle that the light comes into the sketch. So, for example, in the sketch I have here, the light came from the left. I will angle this drawing to be photographed with the light coming from the left-hand side, so that when I do the tonality, there's a real light source on the s...”
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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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