Urban Illustration with Procreate
Preparation and adjustments
A course by Vincent Mahé , Illustrator
About the video: Preparation and adjustments
Overview
“First, I'll show you how to import your sketch into Procreate to create the artwork file. You will see how to make the last few necessary scale adjustments. ”
In this video lesson Vincent Mahé addresses the topic: Preparation and adjustments, 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
“In this lesson. we start our project correctly by initiating the file creation process on our iPad. We will start by creating our file. a file of 12 cm by by 16. centimeters. at 600 dots/inch Working at 600 dpi allows you to produce prints and larger formats from a small illustration. offering greater potential for high-quality enlargements. originally quite small. Here is our file. First. you'll create a black background. And I will. Enlarge this frame to create a margin around our drawing. the black part being our canvas. meaning the fabric in which we will work. I set this black part to ...”
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Course summary for: Urban Illustration with Procreate
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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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