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Case Study 1 Overview (Stand Alone Design)

Lesson 15 from: Adobe Illustrator: From Shapes to Complex & Beautiful Illustrations

Junichi Tsuneoka

Case Study 1 Overview (Stand Alone Design)

Lesson 15 from: Adobe Illustrator: From Shapes to Complex & Beautiful Illustrations

Junichi Tsuneoka

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15. Case Study 1 Overview (Stand Alone Design)

Lessons

Class Trailer

Course Introduction

1

Introduction

01:44
2

Basic Concept of the Course

00:58
3

Examples and Applications

00:39
4

Process Overview

01:44
5

Quiz - Introduction

Getting Started

6

Concept Development

09:12
7

Tips for Pencil Sketch

18:12
8

Shape Tool Basics

06:58
9

Shape Tool Advance

08:36
10

How to Control Shapes by Different Movements

04:49
11

How to Control Shapes By Reflect Skew and Rotate Tools to Create Complex Shapes

05:45
12

Combine Multiple Shapes with Pathfinder Tool

04:19
13

Create Complex Shapes with Pathfinder Tool

06:51
14

Quiz - Getting Started

Case Study 1: Stand Alone Graphic

15

Case Study 1 Overview (Stand Alone Design)

02:04
16

Creating an Environment for Converting the Pencil Sketch into Editable Vector Graphic

03:29
17

Create a Group of Shapes to be Used as a Base of the Illustration

13:03
18

How to Introduce Large Medium and Small Design Elements to the Overall Design to Achieve Depth and More Detailed Result

05:43
19

Adding Colors

11:12
20

How to Fine Tune the Design and Finalize It

03:27
21

Exercise

00:51
22

Quiz - Case Study 1: Stand Alone Graphic

Case Study 2: Illustrative Pattern

23

Case Study 2 Overview (Illustrative Pattern)

01:41
24

Creating an Environment for Converting the Pencil Sketch into Editable Vector Graphic

01:37
25

Create a Small Unit of Complex Shapes to Use as a Base of the Whole Illustration

14:01
26

How to Introduce Large Medium and Small Design Elements to the Overall Design to Achieve Depth and More Detailed Result

01:48
27

How to Introduce Foreground Middle and Background Elements to the Overall Design to Achieve More Depth

09:56
28

Adding Colors

07:27
29

How to Fine Tune the Design and Finalize It

06:38
30

Quiz - Case Study 2: Illustrative Pattern

Conclusion

31

Conclusion

00:59

Final Quiz

32

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Case Study 1 Overview (Stand Alone Design)

in this case study, we will look at standalone illustration that uses complex of shapes here. You can see a few examples. This type of graphic is good for local design, poster design and you can use the same concept for creating typography based design and so on. If you look at these examples, you can see each images consist of series of shapes in variety, but not one particular shape stands out. Everything should work as one big single image. That is the advantage of this type of image I call it stand alone design. It means that when you compose this type of illustration, it is important to pay attention to especially hierarchy and the focal point. Otherwise you will lose the sense of standalone image. Instead, you might end up creating separation within the design or the image would just become confusing. This was a concert poster design project for the band director. During the concept development. A few aspects inspired me to come up with this design. The band name Rector was named...

after a cartoon character. So I wanted to create a character based design but I didn't want to recreate the dinosaur character. They took the name from the sound style was big consideration to the design. The music could be described as techno, digital and pop. So I wanted to express an electric field of the music. A robot natural came up as an idea. I also wanted to make the character somewhat vintage look again because of their music style. It's not a very serious sound, but rather on pop side stylization was also inspired by the music, and I focused on the world digital. And rather than make a physical robot character, I was imagining more of a character who can only appear on screens, just like the digital numbers are broken into separate shapes. I thought of the entire character as a series of different shapes to capture the idea of digital numbers.

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