Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Creating the Drawing in Separate Layers 7
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Creating the Drawing in Separate Layers 7
Overview
“Here I will try adding another figure to the drawing changing its composition. ”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Creating the Drawing in Separate Layers 7, 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 What I'm gonna do now, I'm gonna bring one last figurative element to the drawing to experiment. Again, he may stay, he may not, but it's an element that I've seen in this part of Brazil of a child flying a kite in the streets. I've found this reference here, very pixelated, but it gives enough of the angle to draw it in some kind of perspective. So I go for New, Layer. I'll call it Kite, and I'll start by just drawing the shape. Realistically, this boy wouldn't be flying a kite in the streets here but I'm using some artistic licence. He'd be somewher...”
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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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