Urban Illustration with Procreate

The sketchbook: wandering around the city

A course by Vincent Mahé , Illustrator

Illustrator. París, France.
Joined October 2021
100% positive reviews (73)
3,516 students
Audio: French
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About the video: The sketchbook: wandering around the city

Overview

“In this lesson, I will first introduce you to the project, the desired goal and the path to get there. It starts with looking for inspiration in the chosen place (for me, it will be Paris and the banks of the Seine) by wandering there during an observation drawing session. ”

In this video lesson Vincent Mahé addresses the topic: The sketchbook: wandering around the city, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Illustration with Procreate. Learn to observe a city and turn your sketches into narrative drawings by discovering all the secrets of a professional illustrator.

Partial transcription of the video

“The sketchbook: wandering around the city In this lesson, we will see the importance of the sketchbook. This observation sketchbook will be the first step of the final project. The final project I designed for this course will be to portray your city, a city, in an illustration featuring a character or two. The idea is to move away from classic city portraits which are panoramas or views of monuments, but rather to immerse yourself in the heart of the city with an experience of inhabitants at eye level. For this project, I was inspired by another project that I did professionally for the Ri...”

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Course summary for: Urban Illustration with Procreate

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (73)
  • 3516 students
  • 5 units
  • 19 lessons (4h 12m)
  • 5 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Procreate
  • Areas

    Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration

Vincent Mahé

Vincent Mahé
A course by Vincent Mahé

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Based in Paris, Vincent Mahé is an illustrator with a passion for cities, their movement, and their architecture. After studying animation drawing at Gobelins, he gradually built his career as an illustrator by walking for hours in Paris, sketchbook in hand. The turning point came with his first collaboration with the magazine XXI.

Since then, he has collaborated with Télérama, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, public institutions such as the Lyon Auditorium and the Grand Paris, as well as big brands like Kenzo, Apple, Google, and even Facebook.


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Urban Illustration with Procreate. Illustration course by Vincent Mahé

Urban Illustration with Procreate

A course by Vincent Mahé
Illustrator. París, France.
Joined October 2021
  • 100% positive reviews (73)
  • 3,516 students