Vector Art: Reflecting Your Style with Illustrator

Overview

“Now we need to add some highlights to really make the shapes stand out. This part isn’t necessary but it all depends on the look you are going for and how many colours you’d like to work with. For example, if you are looking to screenprint your work, it might be less stressful and cheaper to have fewer colours but if you’re printing digitally then you can really go wild. ”

In this video lesson Daniele Caruso addresses the topic: Lighting 1, 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

“Lighting In this lesson, we'll add highlights and lighting to your work. This will really make all the shapes pop. It's not a necessary phase, but I think it really helps and makes everything look fantastic, so let's dive in. There's a bit of a different kind of mentality to have here, at least I think so. We don't use as much as larger shapes as we do for the shading and for the highlight. Smaller shapes is the best route to go by. So let's gonna start off by making our colours. So we'll match this and we'll just lighten them like we did before. I'm gonna grab the tool and for now I'm just...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (344)
• 8872 students
• 5 units
• 23 lessons (4h 58m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration