Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Colour Palette
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Colour Palette
Overview
“How to pick colours? This may sound like an intimidating decision, don't worry, I'll teach you how to pick them to support your final project from photographic and drawn reference. Choosing colours based on light, weather and time of day and how they affect the mood of the piece. Your colours could also be unrepresentative of the actual colours of the place. This is your own personal representation! ”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Colour Palette, 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
“Colour Palette In this lesson, I'll talk about the way we go about researching our colour palette, and the relationship of the colours to the mood and the time of day that we're gonna try and portray in our final project. We'll look at the photographs we already have in our reference folder and choose a selection of limited colours that get across the mood that we're trying to get into the final project. Now I have my sketch in progress, I'm gonna start thinking about colours for the image. I've created another layer, Palette, which is a blank layer in the sketch document, and I'm going to ...”
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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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