Urban Illustration with Procreate
The final sketch
A course by Vincent Mahé , Illustrator
About the video: The final sketch
Overview
“You will now choose the best thumbnail to make a more finished sketch. Then, and with the help of colored pencils, I will explain to you how to put down a first intention of color.”
In this video lesson Vincent Mahé addresses the topic: The final sketch, 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 final sketch In this lesson, we will create the final sketch of the illustration. That is to say, we are going to choose the best thumbnail, the most successful composition, we will enlarge this drawing in x2. This final sketch will be the architecture of our final illustration, starting with the inking that will come in the next lessons. If we review the thumbnails we made, we remember that what we liked, it was to have a good proportion on the left of the image for the willow, the quay and the loving couple and in the right half of the image, an opening towards Paris with a third divi...”
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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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