Digital Drawing in Procreate: Illustrate Your Favorite Decade
Sketching
A course by Cat Willett , Illustrator and Digital Artist
About the video: Sketching
Overview
“Using a pencil on paper, I will start by making a thumbnail sketch for my illustration. To do this, I will use real objects as references and draw from the screen when using photos. Next, I will turn each thumbnail into a sketch on paper with a pencil, and I will start sketching in Procreate. ”
In this video lesson Cat Willett addresses the topic: Sketching, 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
“ In the last lesson we went over Procreate basics, and in this lesson we're going to start sketching. Even though this will be a digital illustration when it's finished, I always like to start with pencil and paper to get my ideas down and get me in a good place to start working. And one place I really like to start is with a thumbnail sketch. Thumbnail sketches can be really simple small sketches that you can make on paper that help you to get an idea of your sense of composition and what elements you're including in your sketch. So don't worry too much about making something that looks g...”
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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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