Wildlife Illustration for Children's Books
The Serval: Drawing the Basic Vectors 2
A course by Dieter Braun , Illustrator and Author
About the video: The Serval: Drawing the Basic Vectors 2
Overview
“Let's keep vectorizing the serval. ”
In this video lesson Dieter Braun addresses the topic: The Serval: Drawing the Basic Vectors 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Wildlife Illustration for Children's Books. Create playful illustrations of animals and wildlife by exploring vectors, textures, and gradients in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“The Serval: Drawing the Basic Vectors Our cat needs some more legs, of course. And then it's time for the tail. I think for the tail, I'll try to use another technique. First we create a form with the Curvature Tool. Ok, this one looks quite good. And now we are going to up the weight of the stroke. So just that you see what we are doing here. I created this form and I divided from this form, and then I'll just delete these anchor points... and round the ends. But we still don't have an outline form, so we select it and go to Path, Outline Stroke, and now we have the form that we need. We n...”
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Course summary for: Wildlife Illustration for Children's Books
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Vector Illustration
Dieter Braun
A course by Dieter Braun
From an early age, Dieter Braun has always had a passion for illustration. He studied Communication Design at the Folkwangschule in Essen. Following his university years, he explored a range of artistic mediums ranging from painting to photography.
Dieter’s main inspiration is wildlife. He has written and illustrated several children’s books on the subject, including Wild Animals of the South, Wild Animals of the North, and Oceans of the World. He has also worked with clients like H&M and WWF. His work has been featured in publications like Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek, Elle, and Glamour.
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