Stylish Character Illustration in Procreate
Inspirations
A course by Josephine Rais , Illustrator
About the video: Inspirations
Overview
“In this lesson I'll tell you about my most important influences. First of all, I'll take you with me to my everyday source of inspiration: life! Then I will introduce you to the things and artists who shape me to this day.”
In this video lesson Josephine Rais addresses the topic: Inspirations, which is part of the Domestika online course: Stylish Character Illustration in Procreate. Learn to create digital illustrations of female characters by playing with perspective and making expressive GIFs.
Partial transcription of the video
“Inspirations In the first lesson I told you something about my work and told about myself I would like to take you with me in this lesson on a journey to my sources of inspiration and imagine the things that inspire me every day. As I told you in the last lesson I live and work in Berlin. And for me, Berlin is an incredibly fascinating city. Berlin is incredibly diverse, colorful and diverse and basically I always feel like this that I experience something new every day or that I discover something, what I have not seen or perceived before. Berlin offers an incredibly large network from dif...”
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Course summary for: Stylish Character Illustration in Procreate
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Figure Drawing

Josephine Rais
A course by Josephine Rais
Josephine Rais always wanted to be an illustrator, and studying product design and aesthetic composition allowed her to develop her artistic skills as well as build her portfolio. After graduating, she started work as a freelancer, publishing her illustrations on social media. Before long, she was able to build a list of contacts in Berlin, and later, across the world, earning her first commissions.
Josephine's work is characterized by bright colors, peculiar perspectives, and expressive characters that embody everyday situations, and often, the specific needs and struggles of women. Her artistic influences include Studio Ghibli, illustrator Christoph Niemann, and writer J. R. R. Tolkien. Her pieces have appeared in various magazines such as Die Zeit, Playboy, and Cosmopolitan as well as on product packaging. She has also done illustrations for Facebook, Nike, and adidas.
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