Vector Art: Reflecting Your Style with Illustrator

Overview

“To start the process I like to create a few super fast sketches just to get the compositions and ideas in my head onto paper. You´ll create three very rough sketches. These don’t need to be very detailed, you only need to spend around 2-3 minutes each. I was always taught this at university and it’s stuck with me whether it’s for client work or personal. ”

In this video lesson Daniele Caruso addresses the topic: Thumbnails, which is part of the Domestika online course: Vector Art: Reflecting Your Style with Illustrator. Perfect your use of color, shading, and lighting to create unique vector graphics.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we're going to start the sketching process. So the first steps are to always get your ideas down before you commit to any big drawing or anything. I'm going to do two three minute sketches of each kind of idea whilst looking at my mood board for references. Okay, let's make a start. So we're going to start by drawing three squares. And then we need to remember what we're doing here is getting the composition. So there's no need to be too precious. Just experiment and see what works best for you. It's important in this stage to remember that you're not always going to get it ...”

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Course summary for: Vector Art: Reflecting Your Style with Illustrator

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (346)
• 9011 students
• 5 units
• 23 lessons (4h 58m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration