A course by José Bernabé , Graphic Designer and Lettering Artist

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287 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Moving to Illustrator

Overview

“Here, you will learn how to translate the sketch you made on paper to vector strokes, giving personality and style to your lettering design. After that, you get the file ready to open with C4D.”

In this video lesson José Bernabé addresses the topic: Moving to Illustrator , which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital 3D Lettering with Mixed Media. Create bold and colorful typographic compositions by combining the digital tools of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Cinema 4D with painting techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“Moving to Illustrator In this lesson, we will learn how to translate the sketches we made on paper to Illustrator to give our strokes more personality. Let's go ahead. Once we have taken a photo of our lettering, we just open it on Illustrator to start working on it and convert it into vectors. To do that, we just go here to Place, we look for our image, and we place it here in the document. I'm choosing a very average sketch to show you that just a simple composition can turn into an interesting design. We don't need perfection on this freestyle lettering. The most important thing is to ge...”

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Course summary for: Digital 3D Lettering with Mixed Media

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (13)
287 students
4 units
11 lessons (1h 16m)
6 downloads

Category
3D & Animation, Calligraphy & Typography
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D
Areas
3D, 3D Lettering, 3D Modeling, Digital Lettering, Lettering

José Bernabé

A course by José Bernabé

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Graphic Designer and Lettering Artist

José Bernabé is a Spanish graphic designer and lettering artist based in Málaga. After studying illustration in his hometown, Murcia, he began his career as a graphic designer, where he worked on logos, web design, illustration, and image editing. He went on to work at Philips Design in Amsterdam as well as the corporate advertising agency JWT Amsterdam.

Throughout his career, José has created artwork for brands like Nike, Adobe, Nickelodeon, adidas, Amazon, Unilever, Old Spice, KLM, Citroën, Nutricia, and Dalí Speakers, among others. His work has been published on Adobe, Inspiration Now, Design Taxi, TrendHunter, Photoshop Creative Magazine, Fahrenheit Magazine, Index Books, Betype, Graffica, and more. José has given workshops and lectures for Elements Talks (Warsaw), Festival de Antigua (Guatemala), Let’s Talk Design (Amsterdam) and Core 77 (New York).