Illustrating Fantastical Animals with Procreate

Overview

“In this lesson, I will model how to place the character into an easy background. This will enhance your design and bring some narrative, helping it to come to life!”

In this video lesson Julia Körner addresses the topic: Creating a Simple Background, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrating Fantastical Animals with Procreate. Imagine fantastical characters and turn them into captivating illustrations by exploring poses, props, color, and lighting in Procreate.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Creating a Simple Background To enhance your design, we're going to add little details and place our character in a simple background. To start with our background scene, there are two ways you can start to create it. You can sketch it like we did before with the outlines and a rough sketch of the character, or you can take the Selection tool and directly make rough shapes just to hint the elements that could be in the scene. When you're thinking about what you want to add into your scene, it's always helpful to think about the story you want to tell. Like where they are, where they're ma...”

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Course summary for: Illustrating Fantastical Animals with Procreate

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (142)
• 7162 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 29m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration