Colorful City Portraits: Illustrate Your Favorite Place
A course by Alex Foster , Illustrator
Joined October 2020
Capture the essence of the place you love using mixed digital techniques
Capture the essence of the place you love using mixed digital techniques
Take a visual trip down memory lane by illustrating the structures and buildings of a city you love. Illustrator Alex Foster shows you how to depict urban structures in your own style, using your favorite drawing tools and Adobe Photoshop.
Draw a city portrait by exploring a series of original techniques. Mix analog and digital drawing methods to create a unique and colorful city portrait that stays true to your style. Are you ready to rediscover your favorite city?
What will you learn in this online course?
13 lessons & 32 downloads
- 99% positive reviews (100)
- 2,247 students
- 13 lessons (2h 21m)
- 32 additional resources (1 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Illustrate a portrait of a city you love using both manual and digital techniques.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
This course is suitable for illustrators of all levels who want to learn how to illustrate city portraits using image-editing software.
Requirements and materials
You don’t need previous drawing experience as Alex starts with the basics.
As for materials, you can use any materials you like (pencils, watercolors, or other), paper, a computer with Adobe Photoshop or any other image-editing software, and a scanner or camera to upload your artwork.
Reviews
A course by Alex Foster
Alex Foster is a freelance illustrator from Margate, UK who specializes in map illustration and children’s illustration. He is known for launching a personalized House Portrait service on his online shop, where customers can request a custom illustration of their home. He has created over 400 House Portraits, and regularly updates his online shop with limited edition print collections of maps and city portraits.
His list of clients include Penguin Random House, Air Canada, American Express, Airbnb, Expedia, and English Heritage. Alex has been exhibited internationally and has received a World Illustration Award from the Association of Illustrators in 2015.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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About Me
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Influences
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U2
Formulating Your Idea
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What Is and How to Make the Portrait of a City?
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Research and Save Images
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Materials
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U3
Creating Your Artwork
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Sketch Out Ideas on Paper
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Bringing Your Rough and Textures in Photoshop
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Preparing Your Digital Canvas and Preparing for Colour
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Drawing Buildings
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Adding Colour
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Textures
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U4
Final Touches and Preparing for Print
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Final Touches
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Printing and Presenting
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FP
Final project
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Ilustrated City Portrait
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dimkotlid
Nice tutorial ! Thank you
missphee1327
This is fantastic. I love creating maps with illustrations and have learnt some great new techniques. I'm about to travel overseas and will definitely be using these techniques to create a map of my travels. Thanks Alex.
duaaa
excelente! muy buenos tips. Lo recomendo!
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tamaratagon
Interesante en su aplicación de formas y colores.
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taniac
Muy buenas las explicaciones y toda la presentacion del contenido. Muy utiles los recursos de apoyo. Lo recomiendo!
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