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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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17,179 students

Audio: English, Italian, Portuguese

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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

“Like I mentioned in the last lesson, it's so important to find something that inspires you. So in this lesson, I'm going to show you how to find reference that both inspires and informs the illustration. That you'll be making. Once we find all of our reference, we'll bring that into a vertical Procreate document so we can have this image of reference on the side of our iPad while we're working in Procreate. In my mind, there are two types of reference. One is inspirational reference, and the other is informative reference. Inspirational reference is what we already talked about. Books, movi...”

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Course summary for: Fantastical Illustrations with Procreate

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (449)
17179 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.