Digital Drawing in Procreate: Illustrate Your Favorite Decade
Influences
A course by Cat Willett , Illustrator and Digital Artist
About the video: Influences
Overview
“My influences are varied, but they all helped me form an illustration style that is uniquely mine. Let’s now see some of the artists that inspire me daily and how they impact my work. ”
In this video lesson Cat Willett addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Drawing in Procreate: Illustrate Your Favorite Decade. Learn to use Procreate’s tools by creating illustrations inspired by your favorite era, while exploring color, highlights, shadows and effects.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In the last lesson, I talked about myself and my background, and in this lesson, I'm going to share about some people who've influenced my work. I often reference vintage posters in my work. These are a major source of inspiration that I draw upon when making images. Whether vintage French art nouveau posters, retro 1970s rock posters, or even German Bauhaus posters, there are endless lessons to learn when it comes to composition, color palettes, and communicating messages in a clear and concise way. Will Barnet is also one of my favorite artists. He made paintings depicting anim...”
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Course summary for: Digital Drawing in Procreate: Illustrate Your Favorite Decade
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Category
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Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration

Cat Willett
A course by Cat Willett
Cat Willett is an illustrator and digital artist based in Brooklyn. Growing up in a creative household, she eventually earned a degree in printmaking at the University of Buffalo and went on to study illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology. After working in a marketing job supporting other creatives, she decided to become a full-time freelance artist.
Cat’s nostalgic and whimsical artwork fuses historically inspired elements with flora and strong female figures. Her illustrations have been featured by Dr. Martens, Apple, Adobe, Spotify, Madison Square Garden, the Museum of Arts and Design, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more. She is also the author and illustrator of the graphic biography Queen of Wands: The Story of Pamela Colman Smith, the Artist Behind the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck, published by Running Press.
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