Expressive Illustration and Lettering for Editorial Design

Cleaning up Your Layers and Exporting for Various Formats

A course by Justin Poulter , Graphic Artist

100% positive reviews (31)

986 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Cleaning up Your Layers and Exporting for Various Formats

Overview

“This is the time to make sure all of your layers are correctly named. You will delete any unused extra layers you might have created during the process and double-check that everything is on its correct layer. This is important for when your client needs to work with the Illustrator file you sent them. Once you're done, I will show you how to export your artwork from Illustrator.”

In this video lesson Justin Poulter addresses the topic: Cleaning up Your Layers and Exporting for Various Formats, 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

“Cleaning up Your Layers and Exporting for Various Formats In this lesson, we'll spend a couple of minutes checking our layers, checking their names and if everything is on the right layer. When we send the work to the clients in the end, they will understand the layers, and know where everything is. When all this is in order, we can start sharing our artwork in different formats. Let's get started. I'm happy with this. I've checked everything. I've made sure it's 100% neat and ready to go. The last thing we want to do here is before we start exploring this in various formats, I want to clea...”

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Course summary for: Expressive Illustration and Lettering for Editorial Design

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (31)
986 students
5 units
21 lessons (3h 38m)
2 downloads

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

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Graphic Artist

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.