The Art of Record Covers: Illustration Meets Lettering
How to Approach Your Final Artwork
A course by Steve Simpson , Designer and Illustrator
About the video: How to Approach Your Final Artwork
Overview
“In this lesson I will explain you how to find your own creative style.”
In this video lesson Steve Simpson addresses the topic: How to Approach Your Final Artwork, 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 ARTWORK So in the previous lesson we created our colour roughs. Moving forward in this lesson we'll discuss how to create the final artwork. One of the things that's really important is that you don't take the previous rough colour as being the Bible for the final piece. If you look at the differences between my rough and my final piece you can see that a lot of things have changed. Some of them are quite subtle. Colours have been moved around a little bit, the size of the rabbit's head is slightly changed, the placing of the guitar has moved, positioning of legs... Probably every lit...”
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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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