Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Making a Mental Map and Thumbnail Sketches 2
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Making a Mental Map and Thumbnail Sketches 2
Overview
“Now that I have a basic sketch, I will show you how to add figures to bring narrative elements and highlight the perspective of the drawing. ”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Making a Mental Map and Thumbnail Sketches 2, 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've put together a basic construction of the sketch that I'm gonna use for the final project, I want to bring in figuration to the image to bring narrative devices and to also show the perspective and the scale from the figures in the back to the front. When I'm looking at this sketch, the first thing I'll do is I want to make notes for myself of the scale of the figures in the image. In the back here, they're quite small. I'm literally gonna block in the size of the figures in the background. Then I'll do the same coming forward. I'll increas...”
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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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