Product Illustration Using Your Signature Style
Contour Line
A course by Felipe Novoa (FEN) , Illustrator and Designer
Joined October 2019
About the video: Contour Line
Overview
“This is the part of the process that takes me the longest, but I assure you it is worth it as we will give our illustration a much cleaner and more professional finish. We will do the entire digital process in Photoshop and thus you will learn to use the program's tools to correctly outline your drawing. In my case, I will use a graphics tablet, but initially I did this whole process with the mouse, therefore, you can also do it according to the tools you have available. Here we will get a drawing with finishes similar to the vector and ready to be colored in the next lesson. ”
In this video lesson Felipe Novoa (FEN) addresses the topic: Contour Line, which is part of the Domestika online course: Product Illustration Using Your Signature Style. Use pop culture elements to turn your illustrations into fun products with Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“CONTOUR LINE Hello again. We will see something key for the illustration, the contour line, which must be clean and defined for a better finish. Let's see it. The contour line is generally not used in art, in painting, because in real life things have no contour line I do that line because that is the style that I manage. Then I will explain the tools that I use to make it so that it is well defined and that there is not all this dirt that remains in a sketch. For this I simply lower Opacity to this again and create a new layer, and in this new layer I will already make the contour line. I'...”
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Course summary for: Product Illustration Using Your Signature Style
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Branding & Identity, Digital Illustration, Packaging, Traditional illustration

Felipe Novoa (FEN)
A course by Felipe Novoa (FEN)
Felipe Novoa, also known as FEN, is an illustrator, graphic designer, and is passionate about photography. When he was a boy, he collected stickers and as a teenager, he took an interest in urban art and street stickers; This began his fervent journey into illustration, creating his own imaginative style and pursuing his dream to becoming a professional illustrator.
He has designed school notepads for Keepermate, suitcases for Totto, phone covers for Picmycase in California, and has illustrated for the clothing brands Caos in Colombia and Farolli in Peru, as well as illustrating articles for Bacanika magazine and Cartel Urbano.
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