Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
Finalizing
A course by Nicholas Blechman , Art Director, Illustrator, and Designer
Joined January 2020
Joined January 2020
About the video: Finalizing
Overview
“I got the go-ahead on three of my sketches, now comes the fun part: executing the final design! Let's turn up the volume and get to work. I'll import the sketch in Illustrator and start refining it with clean lines. Then, I'll experiment with different colors and effects to complete the illustration. Remember not to stray too far from your original sketch since that is the version the Art Director approved.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Blechman addresses the topic: Finalizing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills. Turn ideas into images and deliver professional illustrations for articles from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Finalizing In the last lesson, the art director approved three of my sketches, thank God. Now I'm going to show you how to finalize them. Now comes the fun part. I turn up the volume and get to work. First, I'm going to bring in my sketch and put it in a layer in Illustrator. I'm going to mask it to make it clean, to get rid of that edge there. Then, basically, I'm going to trace this drawing, but first I'll change the Opacity and make it a bit less black if that works. That's good. Then, I'm going to lock that layer, so that it doesn't move around as I try to trace it. Then, I create a new...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration
Nicholas Blechman
A course by Nicholas Blechman
Nicholas Blechman is an award-winning illustrator, art director and the current creative director of The New Yorker. He was first introduced to illustration and design at a young age by his father, a cartoonist, author, and filmmaker; and later went on to study studio art and art history at Oberlin College.
During his 20-year career, he has illustrated for the biggest publications in the U.S., including GQ Travel + Leisure, Wired, and The Atlantic. His passion for telling stories through images has seen him co-author books, run his own design studio, and work as the art director for The New York Times. In 2012, Nicholas was also awarded the Rome Prize in Design at The American Academy in Rome.
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