Creative Gameplay Maps: Illustrate a Fantasy World
Materials We Will Use
A course by Andrew Kolb , Illustrator & Author
About the video: Materials We Will Use
Overview
“To start we will make sure we have all the resources and tools we need to create the course project. I tend to use mostly traditional media in these early stages, but if you work straight on the computer, that's great! What's most important is that you're comfortable and can get a lot of different ideas down on the page quickly. ”
In this video lesson Andrew Kolb addresses the topic: Materials We Will Use, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Gameplay Maps: Illustrate a Fantasy World. Create cartographic pieces full of detail, texture, and wonder using Photoshop and InDesign..
Partial transcription of the video
“Okay, so in this lesson I want to talk about some of the materials that we're going to be using to make our final project and I should explain our final project is going to be a map and I wanted to make it based around a fantastical world, because I think it's a good opportunity to push ourselves creatively. Both kind of visually and for information. So building this fantastic little world is gonna require a few steps. We'll start off with, some kind of concept generation, and we're gonna do some research to find kind of visual inspiration And then we'll start with our sketches, move on to ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Gameplay Maps: Illustrate a Fantasy World
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Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration

Andrew Kolb
A course by Andrew Kolb
Andrew Kolb is an illustrator, author, and game designer from Ontario, Canada. Andrew began his career as a graphic designer, but his passion for drawing and storytelling drew him towards books and illustration. He has collaborated with a number of household names, including Disney, Marvel, Penguin Random House, and Funko. He has also published two of his own children’s books. An avid fan of the role-play game Dungeons & Dragons, he has tried his hand at writing books for role-play games as well.
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