Art Deco Style for Digital Illustration
Bringing Your Composition into Illustrator
A course by Mads Berg , Illustrator
Joined September 2020
About the video: Bringing Your Composition into Illustrator
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll start building up the image digitally in Adobe Illustrator. But first I would like to discuss my appreciation for non-contour images and how I work with shapes ”
In this video lesson Mads Berg addresses the topic: Bringing Your Composition into Illustrator, which is part of the Domestika online course: Art Deco Style for Digital Illustration. Create elegant artwork in Illustrator using dynamic compositions and minimalist color palettes.
Partial transcription of the video
“Bringing Your Composition into Illustrator In this lesson, we'll start building up our illustration in Illustrator. However, first I would like to draw your attention to one thing that I especially like about working in Illustrator. In Adobe Illustrator you have the option to work with the shapes, overlaying each other, like shapes of paper being cut out and positioned on top of each other. And that's where the interesting thing comes, because you can actually leave out the outline in your illustration. so you can work purely with shapes and no contour. That is something I'm quite fond of a...”
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Course summary for: Art Deco Style for Digital Illustration
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Fine Arts, Poster Design, Traditional illustration
Mads Berg
A course by Mads Berg
Mads Berg is a Danish illustrator with twenty years of experience in creating commercial illustrations. After studying at the Academy of Art and Design in Copenhagen, he started his illustrating career as a character designer and concept artist for a games studio. He set up his own studio in 2000 specialized in creating posters, brand illustrations, key visuals, editorial illustrations, cover art, and murals.
Mads has illustrated for clients such as Coca-Cola, Orangina, San Diego Zoo, Lego, Monocle, and Wired. His illustrations have been exhibited internationally and celebrated with awards such as "Best Danish Children's Comic" prize in 2010 and the Danish Design Prize in 2009. He also lectures at his former art school, the Academy of Art and Design in Copenhagen.
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