Vector Character Design for Beginners
How to Use Them: Shape
A course by Martin Laksman , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: How to Use Them: Shape
Overview
“I will show you the first steps on how to use vectors, basic tools, shapes, nodes and more, in short ... everything you need to start illustrating! ”
In this video lesson Martin Laksman addresses the topic: How to Use Them: Shape, which is part of the Domestika online course: Vector Character Design for Beginners. Learn how to get the most out of Adobe Illustrator and create fantastic characters from geometric shapes.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to use them: shape In this lesson we will begin to see how to use vectors from shapes. As a first step, once we create any shape, the options we will have they are both stroke and fill. We will change the fill color a bit. And I'll use it from the stroke to make it look better. We have both a shape that can have stroke and fill, a shape that can have only padding and a shape that can have only a stroke. Whatever we do these are generally the options we have when working in Illustrator. We will start by seeing in detail the possibilities of working that we have with the line. To do this,...”
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Course summary for: Vector Character Design for Beginners
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Character Design, Drawing, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration
Martin Laksman
A course by Martin Laksman
Martin Laksman is an Argentinian illustrator with a degree in graphic design from the Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning Department of the University of Buenos Aires where he’s been teaching Editorial Illustration as an adjunct professor in the Roldán department for the past ten years. He is currently the co-director of his own professional illustration training program and the art director for the Club Atlético Independiente where he creates graphic content for the marketing department.
He also works as a freelance illustrator for different national and international graphic media outlets. His work includes character creation, sports and editorial illustrations, and icons that balance simplicity with communicative power. Throughout his career, he has worked with clients like Disney, Coca-Cola, Cartoon Network, Under Armour, Bundesliga, Gatorade, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, NaranjaX, etc.
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