Creative Gameplay Maps: Illustrate a Fantasy World
Detailed Sketch 1
A course by Andrew Kolb , Illustrator & Author
About the video: Detailed Sketch 1
Overview
“The next step is to take the completed thumbnail, make it larger, print it out, and then start to fill in the details in a more complicated sketch. This is my favorite part of the project because there's still so much potential! The basic layout is done, so now it's a case of filling in the details. It's like you have finally moved all of your boxes into your new apartment and it's time to arrange furniture and decorate! It's where the artwork really starts to get a personality of its own and I think it's so much fun to discover that.”
In this video lesson Andrew Kolb addresses the topic: Detailed Sketch 1, 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
“ Detailed Sketch Now that we have our basic thumbnail sketch blown up and our lists ready, let's bring the two together into a detailed sketch. In the sketch, I have already started with the trees or the framing device because that doesn't use any of the list yet, but at least it's a start. Now we can start to combine the themes, people, places, and things with what these random objects are. Let's roll the dice, find out what the stuff will become, and then put it on the map. Again, why I have the shapes here and why I have taken the thumbnail and made it bigger is so I can have a general ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Gameplay Maps: Illustrate a Fantasy World
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Category
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Areas
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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