Packaging Illustration: Create Imaginative Product Designs
Composition with Grids and Guides
A course by Lisa Perrin , Illustrator, Hand-Lettering Artist, and Professor
Joined December 2020
About the video: Composition with Grids and Guides
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll share with you some of the keys to composing hand-lettering like utilizing grids and guidelines to give your design structure. ”
In this video lesson Lisa Perrin addresses the topic: Composition with Grids and Guides, which is part of the Domestika online course: Packaging Illustration: Create Imaginative Product Designs. Combine hand-lettering and illustration techniques to create unique packaging for any product.
Partial transcription of the video
“Composition with Grids and Guides Now we've played with different styles within our hand lettering designs, let's focus on creating compositions using grids and guidelines. Importantly, I would urge you to consider the hierarchy of information whenever you are organizing text. An interesting job that illustrators and designers can do is we convey to the viewer what's important, what they should look at first, second, and so on, so they know how to read the image. Size is one way we can determine that. The biggest thing is usually the most important. Utilizing different weights, so thicker, ...”
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Course summary for: Packaging Illustration: Create Imaginative Product Designs
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Design, Digital Illustration, Hand Lettering, Packaging, Product Design, Traditional illustration

Lisa Perrin
A course by Lisa Perrin
Lisa Perrin is an illustrator, hand-lettering artist, and professor based in Baltimore, Maryland. She was born in New York and went to college there, achieving a BFA in Drawing and Painting. She later went on to study a Master’s in illustration at MICA where she now works full-time as a professor.
Lisa has worked on over thirty book covers as well as for clients including Macy’s, Anthropologie, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Macmillan, The Saturday Evening Post, and Krispy Kreme. Her work has also been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, 3X3 Magazine, and Print Magazine.
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