Digital Shading Techniques
Tools
A course by Abraham García , Illustrator
About the video: Tools
Overview
“In this lesson we will quickly review all the Illustrator tools you need to master and I will show you some illustration processes that we will use throughout the course.”
In this video lesson Abraham García addresses the topic: Tools, 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
“In this lesson we will see the use of the tools that we will need throughout the project and it goes like this. On this occasion I am going to talk a little about the tools that we will use throughout our project. This is going to be a brief introduction since, I know that you are in this course they already have knowledge of what the software is, So I want to tell you a little bit about this. What interests me the most is the Blending Tool, that I use a lot to do this kind of illustrations Many people ask me that if I do all this line by line, maybe yes but no, because what I use is this t...”
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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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