Digital Shading Techniques
Basic brushes
A course by Abraham García , Illustrator
About the video: Basic brushes
Overview
“We started the course formally; the first thing is to see how they are used and create basic brushes in Illustrator. ”
In this video lesson Abraham García addresses the topic: Basic brushes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Shading Techniques. Learn to illustrate with different patterns, hatching, and strokes using Illustrator and Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“Ok Well in this lesson I'm going to teach you how to work the basic brushs in ilustrator These brushes are going to be used throughout the process We are going to use several Ones more complex brushes that we'll see later But we're going to give them the box always Then we'll work The first thing we're going to do is to generate some small circles like the ones I have here They may realize that I have some white and some blacks But in front they will see why we are going to use them like this But now what we are going to do is Let's go to our window And we are going to look for the section ...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Digital Shading Techniques
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Engraving, Traditional illustration

Abraham García
A course by Abraham García
Abraham García is a graphic designer who specializes in illustration but also enjoys experimenting with a wide variety of traditional and digital techniques.
Over the last ten years, he has worked with advertising agencies like Grupo W in Saltillo, Mexico, and Vault 49 in New York, where he currently works as a freelance artist. Throughout this time, he has developed projects for branding, packaging, illustration, web design, album covers, and more.
Some of Abraham’s clients include Harley Davidson, Gatorade, Jack Daniel’s, Volkswagen, Bicycle Cards, and publications such as Picnic, Quo, and Travel and Leisure.
Abraham is also passionate about tattoos, caricatures, graffiti, film, and comics. He enjoys working with his hands on projects involving carpentry, industrial design, and metal structures. For him, “As designers, we are the result of our interests and passions.”
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