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Fantastical Illustrations with Procreate

Finding Inspiration

A course by Michael Relth , Freelance Animator, Illustrator, and Concept Artist

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99% positive reviews (446)

16,878 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Finding Inspiration

Overview

“In this lesson, you will find images online and in your favorite art books that you can use as a source of inspiration. I’ll show you how to find and shoot references that will help inform your drawing later on. ”

In this video lesson Michael Relth addresses the topic: Finding Inspiration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fantastical Illustrations with Procreate. Learn the essentials of storytelling, composition, and color to create your own fictional worlds.

Partial transcription of the video

“Finding Inspiration Like I said, it's so important to find something that inspires you. In this lesson, I'll show you how to find reference that both inspires and informs the illustration that you'll be making. Once we find all our reference, we'll bring that into a vertical Procreate document, so we can have it on our iPad while we're working in Procreate. For me, there are two types of reference, inspirational reference and informative reference. Inspirational reference is what we've seen, books, movies, animation, an art gallery, going for a walk in the woods. Informative reference is sp...”

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Course summary for: Fantastical Illustrations with Procreate

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (446)
16878 students
5 units
16 lessons (2h 50m)
16 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Procreate
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Michael Relth

A course by Michael Relth

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Freelance Animator, Illustrator, and Concept Artist

Michael Relth is a freelance animator, illustrator, and concept artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He’s been drawing since he was a child and, after graduating from ArtCenter College of Design with a BFA in Illustration, he turned his passion for art into a full-time career.

Throughout his career as a freelancer, Michael has worked in character animation, illustration, and visual development for a number of motion graphics studios as well as for clients including Procreate and Warner Animation. He also illustrated and published a book, Picture Book by Dog. As well as selling his sketches, paintings, and illustrations online, he shares them with over 50K followers on Instagram.