Digital Shading Techniques
Complex brushes
A course by Abraham García , Illustrator
About the video: Complex brushes
Overview
“In this lesson we will see 3 types of more complex brushes (art, dispersion and motif). I will also show you how you can apply them in your illustrations to streamline your work process and create very detailed elements in a matter of minutes.”
In this video lesson Abraham García addresses the topic: Complex 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
“[Music] In this lesson I will explain how to create a brush complex from scratch. These brushes are very useful because They save us a lot of time when it comes to illustrating, especially when we are illustrating things with a lot detail, these brushes will save us too much time. Now we are going to work. Hello friends, we are here with a new lesson, now play turn to show you how to do this kind of complex brushes I used for example for this project. Is the file original, then all the material I used to make this type of illustrations we have it here, as we can see, if remember from the la...”
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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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