Forest Fantasy Illustration in Procreate & Photoshop

Element Studies and Story Ideation

A course by Natalie Andrewson , Illustrator

100% positive reviews (45)

3,126 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Element Studies and Story Ideation

Overview

“Now, I’ll cover another way to get inspired to make fantasy work: by focusing on narratives, characters, and fun shapes to build a small warm-up scene. We’ll discuss foreground, middle ground, and background elements to strengthen compositions and moods. ”

In this video lesson Natalie Andrewson addresses the topic: Element Studies and Story Ideation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Forest Fantasy Illustration in Procreate & Photoshop. Learn digital illustration techniques step by step to draw a magical forest scene with an inspiring character.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we're going to be talking about element studies and story ideation. So I've created a Pinterest board of just everything I really want to draw right now. It's like mountains and forests and like little cabins and fairies and these like gnarled trees. Basically, I just grabbed a bunch of stuff. Pinterest is great for that. You can spend way too long on Pinterest, but if you just grab a few pieces of everything that you like, then you'll have a great list to start out with. So I've grabbed like some art nouveau furniture and some like weird, funky mushroom lamps, some fashion,...”

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Course summary for: Forest Fantasy Illustration in Procreate & Photoshop

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (45)
3126 students
4 units
19 lessons (3h 44m)
5 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate
Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration

Natalie Andrewson

A course by Natalie Andrewson

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Illustrator

Natalie Andrewson is an illustrator, comic artist and Risograph printmaker living in Los Angeles. She's worked on lots of different types of projects, from animation concept art to chapter book and magazine covers. In her spare time she makes fantasy-inspired Risograph prints and runs a Risograph Print Subscription where she sends out a new fantasy-adventure themed print each month.

She has collaborated with clients such as The New York Times, Muji, NPR, The Atlantic, First Second Books, Oculus, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, NYU, Bento Box, Nickelodeon, Dreamworks and Disney.