Art Deco Style for Digital Illustration
Working with Layers and Groups
A course by Mads Berg , Illustrator
Joined September 2020
About the video: Working with Layers and Groups
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll look at how layers and groups work in Adobe Illustrator and why they’re very useful when working on your composition. ”
In this video lesson Mads Berg addresses the topic: Working with Layers and Groups, 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
“In this lesson, we'll look at groups and layers in Adobe Illustrator and why they are very useful when working with this. We have our initial sketch work here scanned in, and we've been illustrating the bits and parts of the illustration. So I'll just click on the layer that I've prepared here. And that's where we have the torso and the head of the character that we'll be illustrating. I'll zoom in a bit. And I always name these layers so that we can find them again. easily and in this case there are only eight, nine layers, but these layers tend to build up. You can easily have a document ...”
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Course summary for: Art Deco Style for Digital Illustration
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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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