Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

Overview

“We chose one of our thumbnail sketches and we turned it into a tighter sketch. It is time to move into Illustrator to create our final drawing. Take your time here, go as far as you want to.”

In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: Creating the Final Drawing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Composition and Color for Creative Illustration. Learn how to visually interpret a written piece and turn it into a meaningful illustration.

Partial transcription of the video

“Creating The Final Drawing Now that we finished interpreting and depicting the text, creating the thumbnails and brainstorming, and also doing the drawing, we've reached the point where we can do the final illustration using Adobe Illustrator, so let me show you how. First thing, I placed the sketch onto the Artboard and then I always lock it. The next thing I'm gonna do is add another layer and place the first layer underneath the pencil layer because my vector drawing actually exists beneath the pencil line. I draw everything underneath the original sketch. I also lock the background laye...”

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Course summary for: Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (232)
• 4413 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (3h 6m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration