Expressive Illustration and Lettering for Editorial Design
What We Will Do and Coming up With Your Idea
A course by Justin Poulter , Graphic Artist
About the video: What We Will Do and Coming up With Your Idea
Overview
“Let's take a look at the theme of the book you will be making a cover for. You will think about how you would like to treat your cover stylistically. To be able to do this, we should discuss who the book cover will be aimed at, and how this will affect the things to be included in the cover. You will decide on a name and a byline for your book as well.”
In this video lesson Justin Poulter addresses the topic: What We Will Do and Coming up With Your Idea, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Illustration and Lettering for Editorial Design. Explore the sweet spot between art and design by learning how to create memorable book covers with Procreate and Adobe Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“What We Will Do and Coming up With Your Idea In this lesson, we'll talk about what we'll do in the course, and I'll show how to turn ideas into a solid brief. In this course, we'll learn how to create a book cover combining illustration and custom hand lettering. We'll use two types of software. We'll start out on Procreate where we'll do our sketching and preliminary work, and when we're happy with that, we'll move into Illustrator where we do our final work. I'll design a book cover for a travel guide for Madrid. You can design a cover for a guide of any city or use these techniques to de...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Illustration and Lettering for Editorial Design
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography, Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Procreate -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Poster Design, Vector Illustration
Justin Poulter
A course by Justin Poulter
Justin Poulter is a London-based graphic artist from Capetown, South Africa. Growing up, he loved to draw and always knew he wanted to be an artist. He eventually went on to study communication design at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, where he discovered a love for commercial illustrations that inspired his career.
Justin’s work combines illustrations with hand-drawn typography. With over 10 years of experience in his field, he’s designed a book cover for the Britannica Books, and a coloring book for National Geographic. He’s also created illustrations for Nike, Levis, Bud Light, Cadbury, and Delta.
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