The Art of Record Covers: Illustration Meets Lettering
Final Refined Drawing
A course by Steve Simpson , Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Final Refined Drawing
Overview
“In this lesson I will start working on the final refined drawing using the templates supplied. This drawing is where you can finally add details. It’s important to keep referring back to your research material, and maybe finding extra references now you know exactly what you’re drawing.”
In this video lesson Steve Simpson addresses the topic: Final Refined Drawing, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Record Covers: Illustration Meets Lettering. Combine illustration and lettering to create unique designs that complement the music they accompany.
Partial transcription of the video
“FINAL REDEFINED DRAWING Now we'll take the rough drawing we created in the previous lesson, scan it into the iPad and use Affinity Designer to create the final rough drawing. I centre the sketch, it finds it and I just press Scan. Having scanned my image, I can now open this in Affinity Designer. I am copying this to Designer. So now I have the image in Affinity Designer and I want to copy it into the template to make sure the size is correct. At this stage my scan is too big, so I'm just resizing it. I only really need the front of the template, so I'm going to crop the whole image. So the...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Record Covers: Illustration Meets Lettering
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Calligraphy, Graphic Design, Lettering, Traditional illustration
Steve Simpson
A course by Steve Simpson
With over 30 years of experience, Steve Simpson is renowned for his hand-lettered packaging design, whimsical characters, and illustrated barcodes. His distinctive style, inspired by the arts & crafts movement, 50s advertising, and folk art, has appeared on everything from a 1" postage stamp to a 200 feet screen in Times Square. His work has adorned whiskey bottles and cough bottles, boardgames and board rooms, hot sauces and ceramic saucers.
Since 2008, Steve has won over 50 awards for both packaging design and illustration, including Gold awards from the Association of Illustrators, Illustrators Guild of Ireland, the IDI and ICAD. He's been an awards judge for Adobe, 3x3, and the Hong Kong Society of Illustrators, and is also a founding member of the Illustrators Guild of Ireland and OFFSKETCH.
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