Urban Illustration with Procreate
Secondary elements 2
A course by Vincent Mahé , Illustrator
About the video: Secondary elements 2
Overview
“As I finish inking, I'll teach you how to work on the background elements, trying to keep things concise and readable.”
In this video lesson Vincent Mahé addresses the topic: Secondary elements 2, 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
“Secondary elements So much for the middle ground. I forgot one detail: a few lines in the water, under the barges. But you have to remain very discreet so as not to attract the eye. The further I get away from the barge going down, the fewer the lines, the further apart the lines. It gives this feeling of spacing out the eddies in the water. An almost continuous first line near the barge and then very discontinuous when you move away from it. Now I'm going to move on to the buildings, to the cupola and to the sky. So far, we've been very flat, that is to say that we worked plan by plan. On ...”
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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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