Adobe Illustrator: Graphic Design for Beginners
Course 3: Bring Your Designs to Life: Practice
By Gilian Gomes , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Practice
Overview
“In this unit, we will practice everything we saw in the course creating super colorful icons.”
In this video lesson Gilian Gomes addresses the topic: Practice, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 3: Bring Your Designs to Life. Get to know the main color modes and learn how to use them.
Partial transcription of the video
“ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR / COURSE 3 LESSON 5 - Practice It's time to practice your skills in color by making colorful icons. Let's do it. Icons are great for composing your designs. They summarize the visual aspect, but they also have to be easily recognized. It's a challenge, but when it's fun, everything's better. Since this is about colors, we'll give these six little fruit icons three types of finish. Solid colors, gradients, and strokes. I created these icons with geometric shapes and sometimes using the Pen tool. This document is available to be downloaded on the course page. You can also ed...”
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Course summary for: Course 3: Bring Your Designs to Life

Gilian Gomes
By Gilian Gomes
Gilian Gomes is a designer and illustrator, as well as a typography and art direction enthusiast. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, he holds a degree in design and a postgraduate degree in branding. He has more than 15 years' industry experience under his belt and now focuses on branding and packaging.
His creative process explores designs that express powerful and singular meanings. Through use of his illustration and typography skills, Gilian seeks unique and impressive results.
Throughout his career he's worked with large corporations, advertising agencies, and design studios like Sweety & Co. and Raison Pure. Some of his biggest clients include O Boticário, Sebrae, Grupo Zaffari, Enjoei, and Wordbank. He currently works as a freelance professional collaborating with clients all over the world.
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