Urban Illustration with Procreate
Characters
A course by user8822657 surname8822657 , Illustrator
Joined October 2021
Learn to observe a city and turn your sketches into narrative drawings by discovering all the secrets of a professional illustrator
About the video: Characters
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell you about my approach to characters. You will learn how to place a character in a scene, working on a separate page from the main sketch in order to specify their attitude as well as their design. ”
In this video lesson user8822657 surname8822657 addresses the topic: Characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Illustration with Procreate. Learn to observe a city and turn your sketches into narrative drawings by discovering all the secrets of a professional illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“Characters In this lesson, I would like to talk to you about my approach to the characters. They are of paramount importance in every drawing I make, a bit like the Hopper reference that we saw in my influences. The character is central even if sometimes it is lost in an architectural universe or a compound. Everything must revolve around this character, what he tells, the narration. The key, it is to skilfully navigate between realism and simplicity. Simplicity is brought by the clear line and drawing style. Realism comes with documentation, with the work of the pose of the characters, the...”
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Course summary for: Urban Illustration with Procreate
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
A course by user8822657 surname8822657
Based in Paris, Vincent Mahé is an illustrator with a passion for cities, their movement, and their architecture. After studying animation drawing at Gobelins, he gradually built his career as an illustrator by walking for hours in Paris, sketchbook in hand. The turning point came with his first collaboration with the magazine XXI.
Since then, he has collaborated with Télérama, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, public institutions such as the Lyon Auditorium and the Grand Paris, as well as big brands like Kenzo, Apple, Google, and even Facebook.
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