Vector Art: Reflecting Your Style with Illustrator

Overview

“Now it’s time for the final step in the drawing process. We are going to pick out the shapes from our rough drawing using a light box then begin to add shading, details, and plan our hatching. No worries if you don't have a light table. A simple tracing paper is as effective! ”

In this video lesson Daniele Caruso addresses the topic: Finalizing Your Line and Shape Drawing, 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

“Finalizing your Line and Shape Drawing In this next step, we'll finalize our sketch starting with the outlines, then we'll go into the shading, and then the hatching. For this I'm using a lightbox, personally, but you can use digital medias, like a Wacom or an iPad Pro. But I'm using a lightbox, they're not too expensive. you can also use tracing paper, if you have it available, and you can use any paper that you want. One thing I like to do is to make my lines have a dynamic width. I go over it multiple times with a pencil and this kind of creates a random sort of effect to it. So the more...”

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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