Expressive Illustration and Lettering for Editorial Design
Setting up Your Document and Working With Layers
A course by Justin Poulter , Graphic Artist
About the video: Setting up Your Document and Working With Layers
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to make sure that the document has the correct size while also taking into account the necessary bleed and the width of the book's spine. I will show you how layers work in Illustrator: You will learn to import the sketch to its own layer and to set its opacity to be visible on top of or below other layers.”
In this video lesson Justin Poulter addresses the topic: Setting up Your Document and Working With Layers, 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
“Setting up Your Document and Working With Layers Now that your sketch is finished, in this lesson, we'll jump into Adobe Illustrator. I'll show how to set up a document and work with layers. We're in Illustrator now and I'll set up my document. The first step is to create the document, so I'll click Create new over here on the left. That brings up this next box where we can name our file up here. I'm going to name this file "DOMESTIKA L1". I'm going to set my measurements to Millimeters. I want it 150 millimetres as the width, and 200 millimetres as the height. That will be a portrait docum...”
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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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