Digital Shading Techniques
Adding detail to our typography
A course by Abraham García , Illustrator
About the video: Adding detail to our typography
Overview
“In this lesson we will continue adding details such as lights, shadows and a couple of bevels to our main typography to give a certain character to our label.”
In this video lesson Abraham García addresses the topic: Adding detail to our typography, 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, at this point of our project We already have something more structured We can see that it has more shape Let's proceed to add some detail To our typography Let's do some tests. Well in this lesson Let's add a bit of character to our typography Here I added our file this pair of references That we had previously selected In our references b Lo What I like about these two references It's like a certain way� It seems to have a certain volume This is being achieved with this� Black bevels that they have here And this white one that has the top part Which is giving us another level of depth ...”
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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