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

“Thumbnails Now we'll start the sketching process. The first steps are always to get your ideas down before you commit to any big drawing. I'll do two, three minute sketches of each idea while I'm looking at my mood board for references. OK, let's make a start. We'll start by drawing three squares and remember, all we're doing here is a composition, so there's no need to be too precious, just see what works best for you. It's important to remember that it won't always be right first time, that's why you spend 2 to 3 minutes, so you don't waste anything. If it's not working, what you can do i...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (345)
• 8886 students
• 5 units
• 23 lessons (4h 58m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration