Forest Fantasy Illustration in Procreate & Photoshop
Composition 1: Composition Studies and Thumbnail Sketches
A course by Natalie Andrewson , Illustrator
Joined August 2021
About the video: Composition 1: Composition Studies and Thumbnail Sketches
Overview
“Here, you’ll play with photos from your inspiration board and add elements to build quick compositions and rule out what works and what doesn’t. We’ll get bad compositions out of our system and find fun framing elements to make a strong adventure-fantasy forest scene. ”
In this video lesson Natalie Andrewson addresses the topic: Composition 1: Composition Studies and Thumbnail Sketches, 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 working on tiny thumbnails to create the final composition. Let's start. So I'm going to start by making a bunch of small thumbnails. This way, I can start warming up, feeling really comfortable with my composition. I'm just going to start with the same idea of my previous sketches, kind of these two main trees, maybe one in the foreground, one in the background, maybe something interesting in the middle. I'm going to start thinking about elements I'd like to include in each composition. So I want this big tree that maybe is a bridge. So I'm going to kind o...”
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Course summary for: Forest Fantasy Illustration in Procreate & Photoshop
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration

Natalie Andrewson
A course by Natalie Andrewson
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.
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