Urban Illustration with Procreate
The subject in Scene 1
A course by Vincent Mahé , Illustrator
About the video: The subject in Scene 1
Overview
“Now I'm going to teach you how to lay down the first lines of the illustration, starting with the subject of the scene. So you will see in practice the features of the clear line technique. ”
In this video lesson Vincent Mahé addresses the topic: The subject in Scene 1, 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 subject in the scene In this lesson, we are going to start inking our illustration starting with the subject of the scene: the couple and the tree and the foreground. The technique we are going to use to ink our illustration is called "the clear line". Basically it's about using the same black line thickness on the whole illustration, from foreground to background. This will require prioritizing and making choices. The foreground will have more lines and more descriptions, whereas, the further away we go, the more we will have to be synthetic and make radical choices. That's why we star...”
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Course summary for: Urban Illustration with Procreate
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Category
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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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