Geometric Illustration for Social Media: Make Your Vectors Pop
Shapes and Colors
A course by Jorsh Peña , Illustrator
About the video: Shapes and Colors
Overview
“In this lesson, I am going to show you the necessary tools to create geometric shapes. I'm also going to teach you how to choose a color palette and combine them in gradients so that you can color all your figures. ”
In this video lesson Jorsh Peña addresses the topic: Shapes and Colors, which is part of the Domestika online course: Geometric Illustration for Social Media: Make Your Vectors Pop. Create unique and fun graphics using simple geometric shapes.
Partial transcription of the video
“Shapes and Colors Now I'm going to teach you how to create simple geometric shapes and how to add color to give life to our project. Now I'm going to start my file in Adobe illustrator. The way I did it is go to File, select New, and this New Document pop-up will appear, and you can name your file as you want. You need to set right here to 1000 by 1000 pixels. You can pick the unit right here. In this area, we need to be sure that we are working on RGB. RGB is for digital mediums, so this is the way we are working right now. It is for social media and it is a digital medium, so we need to b...”
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Course summary for: Geometric Illustration for Social Media: Make Your Vectors Pop
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Social Media Design, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration

Jorsh Peña
A course by Jorsh Peña
Jorsh Peña is a Mexican illustrator who currently lives in Tijuana (Mexico). He specializes in vectors and is a great fan of geometry and the different meanings that can be given to a shape. Through vectors, he manages to transmit these messages and create a personal aesthetic that identifies his work.
He has been illustrating for different projects and brands for more than 10 years, from editorial to motion graphics. Some of the brands he has worked or collaborated with are Alaska Airlines, Cartoon Network, Kindergarten, Grupo Expansión, Old Navy, Samsung, and Snapchat, among others.
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