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Adobe Illustrator for Beginners

Course 3: Drawing Tools: Imperfect Shapes

By Tina Touli , Creative Director and Graphic Communication Designer

Creative Director and Graphic Communication Designer. London, United Kingdom.
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About the video: Imperfect Shapes

Overview

“In this lesson, we will learn how to create “imperfect” shapes in order to achieve a more “hand-drawn” look and feel.”

In this video lesson Tina Touli addresses the topic: Imperfect Shapes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 3: Drawing Tools. Learn how to illustrate digitally and give a hand-drawn look to your artwork.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this unit, we will learn how to create imperfect shapes. all the shapes that we created as far in Illustrator are somehow a bit more stiff and geometric and perfect. Well, especially when it comes to illustration, sometimes the element of imperfection can be very interesting. It makes illustrations feel a bit more human and perhaps a bit more engaging for the viewer too. So there is a group of tools that allows us to modify all those perfect shapes and create some less stiff objects out of them. Let's have a look. The collection of those tools are under the WETS tool that you will find o...”

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Course summary for: Course 3: Drawing Tools

  • Level: Beginner
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Tina Touli

Tina Touli
By Tina Touli

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Creative Director and Graphic Communication Designer

London-based creative director, graphic communication designer, maker, speaker, and educator Tina Touli is the founder of the multidisciplinary studio Tina Touli Design. She works in a variety of design fields including branding, typography, web design, and animation. She also teaches at her former university—Central Saint Martins— and has been invited as a guest speaker for events like Adobe Live Stream, FITC Amsterdam, Bump Festival, and the Birmingham Design Festival.

Her clients include Adobe, Dell, Tate, Converse, University of the Arts London, Kappa, BenQ, and Mulberry. She has also received awards from Adobe Creative Jam, The Transform Awards, and The European Packaging Design Association Awards.


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Course 3: Drawing Tools

By Tina Touli
Creative Director and Graphic Communication Designer. London, United Kingdom.
Joined January 2020
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  • 8 students