Stylized Vector Illustration with Color and Character
Customising Your Workspace and Keyboard Preferences
A course by Owen Davey , Illustrator
About the video: Customising Your Workspace and Keyboard Preferences
Overview
“In this lesson, I prepared a tutorial to show you how I customise my workspace and the keyboard preferences in my computer. ”
In this video lesson Owen Davey addresses the topic: Customising Your Workspace and Keyboard Preferences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Stylized Vector Illustration with Color and Character. Create stunning digital illustrations with geometric shapes and curated color palettes.
Partial transcription of the video
“Customizing your Workspace and Keyboard Preferences Now I'll show you how I customise my workspace and keyboard preferences so that it works best for me. I'm gonna show you how. When you first open up Photoshop, it will look like this depending on your version. But I really like to customise my workspace. There's also certain customisable things about how you approach your pieces as well. For example, I hate artboards. I can't get on with them at all, they never really work. Standard resolution for web-based things is about 72 DPI, but the print standard's about 300 DPI. For me, I like to m...”
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Course summary for: Stylized Vector Illustration with Color and Character
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration

Owen Davey
A course by Owen Davey
Owen Davey is an award-winning illustrator from the UK. He has been a professional freelance illustrator since 2009 and has had the pleasure of working with renowned international clients like Google, Facebook, Sony, Lego, and National Geographic.
He is the lead illustrator for the multi-award winning app Two Dots and has produced several picture books over the years, most notably the non-fiction ‘About’ series with Flying Eye Books, which began with “Mad About Monkeys” in 2015. Other notable clients include Airbnb, The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, GQ, British Airways, Virgin, Orange, Guinness, Microsoft, and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
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