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Lesson 4 from: Adobe Illustrator: From Shapes to Complex & Beautiful Illustrations

Junichi Tsuneoka

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Lesson Info

4. Process Overview

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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

Process Overview

as well as technical skills, it is very important to understand the general process of this method. We will start from visualizing your ideas on paper. This part is very important. Even though the sketches rough by doing a hand drawn sketch, you can come up with flexible and interesting design much easier in my opinion. If you skip this process and jump right into the digital tools, it will be very challenging to come up with any effective design. Digital tools are very useful and convenient but how to control them is quite different from how we draw naturally by hand, that's why hand drawn sketches, a great idea development tool. Then we will convert the hand drawn image into victor shapes as you can see. The digital tools are great to make a rough idea into much more presentable images. So let's make sure there's an idea development tool and there is a production tool. Once we move on to a victor environment, I want to think about any painting or sculpture. You start from rough shape...

, big picture, you don't worry about the details right away, we will walk on the big area, then we move on to small details, areas while we develop and fine tune the image. We will look at composition, balance, hierarchy and depth of the image Very closely we create an illustration from simple shapes that means it is very easy to apply basic graphic design principles which I can explain in details later in this course, we will also look at how to take advantage of the convenience of adobe illustrator. This will help you understand how to make your workflow very efficient, whatever your design, maybe it is important to understand and follow this process for successful results.

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