Expressive Illustration and Lettering for Editorial Design
Greyscale and Textures 2
A course by Justin Poulter , Graphic Artist
About the video: Greyscale and Textures 2
Overview
“Let's continue to add textures and colours to bringy our typographic design to life before tweaking it and adding in some final touches.”
In this video lesson Justin Poulter addresses the topic: Greyscale and Textures 2, 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
“Greyscale and Textures You can see that the brush we wanted on this darker part of the 3D, it's difficult to paint. For now I'll move the brush stroke I made to the side here holding Shift, so it stays in line with where I roughly made it. We're going to use the Pencil again. What I'll do is just draw a box over this shape here with the stroke, but we can do this without a stroke. It's a path. You don't need a stroke on this. When I've got that ready, making sure that's on top now, we'll drag the brushstroke back. I'll select both of these, and then I'll go over here to Object menu. We want...”
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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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