Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Creating the Drawing in Separate Layers 2
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Creating the Drawing in Separate Layers 2
Overview
“Now I will work with the sketch of the second figure by creating yet another layer and I will also use colours to light the image. ”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Creating the Drawing in Separate Layers 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
“Creating the Drawing In Separate Layers Moving back to the drawing, I've brought back in the sketch of the second figure and I'm gonna start work. I'm actually gonna put her in a different layer, so I can re-scale. It doesn't do any harm if I put on a second layer then decide to move her position, she'll still be working ok. I'll call her Baiana 2. Now, I'm gonna pick a slightly lighter version of this, beige, about there. There will be variations, but the variations will be quite subtle. She's got these really good shapes. She's looking up to the skies. I'll want my.... Fill in this area h...”
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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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