Analog-Style Digital Illustration with Procreate
Blocking in Shapes
A course by Brad Woodard , Graphic Design and Illustrator
About the video: Blocking in Shapes
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll fill in the main shapes that make up my poster design. While creating our shapes, we won’t worry about color quite yet, as we will be working in grayscale in order to see if the overall composition is balanced and has enough contrast. ”
In this video lesson Brad Woodard addresses the topic: Blocking in Shapes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Analog-Style Digital Illustration with Procreate. Learn how to apply traditional techniques with digital media to create nostalgic works of art that are perfectly imperfect.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Blocking in Shapes In this lesson, we'll be taking our now finalized sketch and adding in our shapes, blocking in our main shapes, so we can add our colors and textures later. The reason we block in shapes is that we're building our house's framework. We want to put up the walls, the foundation, the roof, have all that there so we can decorate and do all the fun stuff afterwards, a bit looser after, but those main shapes that we know we have to have, we'll block those in. We can use those as something that we can mask off for our textures, and we can get a good idea of where we'll put our...”
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Course summary for: Analog-Style Digital Illustration with Procreate
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Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Brad Woodard
A course by Brad Woodard
Brad Woodard is an illustrator, graphic designer, and co-founder of the creative agency Brave the Woods. After graduating with a BFA in graphic design, he worked in multiple studios, a creative startup, and an advertising agency before starting one of his own, which specializes in branding and commercial illustration.
Inspired by his childhood adventures, Brad’s style is bold and graphic. He enjoys designing for kids and for those who are kids at heart. His work can be found in bookstores, toy stores, and department stores and, together with his creative co-founder, he has worked for clients including USPS, Ford, Penguin Random House, eBay, and Microsoft.
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