Travel Illustration: Recreate Your Favorite Place
Lithographic Layer
A course by Alex Green , Illustrator
About the video: Lithographic Layer
Overview
“I will explain to you how you can bring an analogue touch to our digital drawing by adding a Soft Layer of a Rollered or Litho colour created manually. This brings a hand-crafted feel to the drawing and a nice ambiguity to the process. ”
In this video lesson Alex Green addresses the topic: Lithographic Layer, 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
“Litographic Layer In this lesson, I'll talk about how I add a lithographic layer to the overall image once it's been resolved. For me, it's really important when I do this that I've balanced out the image and got it to a resolution. This is not a resolution layer, this is an additional embellishment to the final image. What I do here is I use a smooth surface, could be glass, Perspex. If you haven't got those things, you can use greaseproof paper. I squeeze acrylic paint and a touch of pigment in the form of an ink, and I use a roller like this. Make sure that it's clean, so it does have re...”
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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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