Illustrated Digital Lettering
Prepare Your Workspace in Illustrator
A course by Birgit Palma , Illustrator and Lettering Artist
About the video: Prepare Your Workspace in Illustrator
Overview
“Before getting down to work, it is important to throw an eye on some technical foundations of Illustrator which can simplify your workflow enormously. To boil down the type we’re going to use, you will need to know keyboard shortcuts and how to work in a grid. ”
In this video lesson Birgit Palma addresses the topic: Prepare Your Workspace in Illustrator , which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Digital Lettering. Learn how to add depth and meaning to words using shapes, color, and volume.
Partial transcription of the video
“Prepare your workspace in Illustrator In this lesson, we're going to take a closer look at how guidelines in Adobe Illustrator work. This is very important and basic, it's kind of a technical foundation you will need to construct the alphabet later on, so let's go. Starting with the document, always try to work in the size your artwork will be. In our case, as it's an editorial illustration, le's takes the size of 1440 and 800. I already put that in here. "Prepare Your Document." We are working in RGB color mode because it will be purely digital. Here are the tools I use a lot in Illustrato...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Digital Lettering
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Digital Lettering, Lettering, Typography Design
Birgit Palma
A course by Birgit Palma
Birgit Palma is passionate about illustration and a self-proclaimed lettering addict, who is based in Barcelona, Spain. After studying her Master’s in Design at the University of Salzburg, Austria, she went to New York for an internship at design studio Vault49, and then to Barcelona to work at Vasava, where she worked in lettering, illustration, and design.
Today, Birgit works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, working for clients such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Adidas, Hyundai, Red Bull, Adobe, and many more.
When she’s not busy designing in her studio in Barcelona, she travels the world to teach workshops in type illustration in places like Guatemala, Germany, or Austria and has been lecturing at FH Salzburg and EINA Barcelona since 2016. Her work has been featured in Digital Design, DigitalArts, and Adobe Favs, among many more.
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