Conceptual Illustration: Big Ideas in a Single Image
Creating the Vector Lines
A course by Lennart Gäbel , Conceptual Illustrator
About the video: Creating the Vector Lines
Overview
“In this lesson, we are going to draw the vector lines for a clean and neat look.”
In this video lesson Lennart Gäbel addresses the topic: Creating the Vector Lines, which is part of the Domestika online course: Conceptual Illustration: Big Ideas in a Single Image. Discover how to generate powerful ideas and translate them into compelling illustrations that attract your dream clients.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating the Vector Lines In this lesson, we'll draw the vector lines for a clean, neat look. Ok, so when I finalize my illustrations, I do this in a vector program. Now I'll work in a different program, a vector program. Currently we are still working in 21 x 28 cm. That's smaller than A4. I want the original to be at least close to A3. I'll do 30, 40, so 30 x 40, almost exactly. Ok, perfect. Then I go Cancel. I switch to Affinity, open a new file. 300 x 400 mm, 300 PPI. That's good, that's perfect, and Create. Now, I place our final sketch in here. It fits perfectly. I'm going to lock it,...”
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Course summary for: Conceptual Illustration: Big Ideas in a Single Image
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Designer -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration
Lennart Gäbel
A course by Lennart Gäbel
Lennart Gäbel is a conceptual illustrator from Germany. After studying economics at university he took a job in marketing but his strong interest in drawing and creativity prevailed and he quit his job to study illustration at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam. An exchange program took him to the School of Visual Art in New York City and this is where Lennart truly discovered his style.
His illustration of Donald Trump, which he shared on Facebook prior to the 2016 US election, was shared globally in newspapers, blogs and in demonstration imagery. Since then he’s worked for numerous clients including Playboy, Huffington Post, Volkswagen, and Der Spiegel. One of his covers for Der Spiegel also saw him win Germany’s Cover of the Year in 2018.
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