Digital Drawing in Procreate: Illustrate Your Favorite Decade
Generating Ideas
A course by Cat Willett , Illustrator and Digital Artist
About the video: Generating Ideas
Overview
“Now I will talk about how to come up with an idea, and I will answer some questions such as: What movies do I like to watch the most? What types of music make me feel alive? After thinking about this, I will meditate on a subject and pick a theme about the decade I chose. ”
In this video lesson Cat Willett addresses the topic: Generating Ideas, 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
“Generating Ideas In the last lesson, we talked about my influences, and in this lesson, I'll go over generating ideas for this project. When I'm trying to come up with an idea for a project, I think about the types of content that inspire me. What sort of movies do I like to watch, especially when thinking about a particular decade? What movies are really iconic from that decade? What type of music do I listen to? What type of music speaks to that particular decade? And what kind of objects and fashion were around at that time? Gathering all of these elements helps me to have a really good ...”
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Course summary for: Digital Drawing in Procreate: Illustrate Your Favorite Decade
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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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