Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Line Work and Basic Tone 1
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Line Work and Basic Tone 1
Overview
“Brushes are going to be a really important part of your project, this is why I recommend you to experiment with different types of brushes before committing to one for your linework. I will show you the different options you can find in Photoshop, therefore you will be able to make the best decision for your project.”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Line Work and Basic Tone 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
“Line Work and Basic Tone In this lesson, I'm gonna start the initial linework from the sketch that we've imported. I'm gonna talk about the brush types to be used, the width and the depth of line and bringing tone into the image in a separate layer. We've created a basic palette for our illustration. This will change as we go along, and as we're drawing the image we can pick back into the image and change the colour so it remains the same on the layer. I've also dragged in another reference from Miroslav Šašek, and you can have a pictorial reference in the image which you can turn on and of...”
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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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