Urban Illustration with Procreate
Thumbnails: find the composition
A course by Vincent Mahé , Illustrator
About the video: Thumbnails: find the composition
Overview
“Here you will see how to start from your observation drawings to create thumbnails and find the composition of your illustration. It will be a question of drawing in your notebook and in small several compositions, which will help you to see more clearly.”
In this video lesson Vincent Mahé addresses the topic: Thumbnails: find the composition, 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
“Thumbnails: find the composition In this lesson, we will make thumbnails, that is to say, very small drawings of about 4 x 5 cm which will allow us to set up the composition by doing several tries until you get the right one. We drew together in our place with the sketchbook, then we learned some basic rules of composition. Now, we will combine these two approaches and try to create the composition of our final illustration. I suggest you draw small in frames of about 4 x 5 cm. You can put about nine of them in your A5 notebook page. If you draw small, you can see what place must take which...”
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Course summary for: Urban Illustration with Procreate
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration

Vincent Mahé
A course by Vincent Mahé
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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