Record Cover Design with Pencil Illustration Techniques

The Typography

A course by Charlotte Delarue , Art Director Specialized in Illustration

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253 students

Audio: French

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About the video: The Typography

Overview

“Now I'm going to show you how I go about creating typography, first on paper and then with Illustrator. In this case, I'm trying to reproduce in the typography the visual of a cable that would be connected to Pat's helmet.”

In this video lesson Charlotte Delarue addresses the topic: The Typography, which is part of the Domestika online course: Record Cover Design with Pencil Illustration Techniques. Create a compelling album cover by combining realistic illustration techniques like pencil sketching, photomontage, and typography.

Partial transcription of the video

“The typography In this lesson, I'll show you how to set cable typography. Whenever I design a typography, I always need to go through the paper to draw the letters several times, until you are happy with the result before switching to Illustrator software to make the typography clean. The idea in this typography is that it is inspired by a cable. I will try to reproduce this as much as possible. I will draw letters which will themselves be integrated into the cable, which is linked to Pat's helmet. On this whole part, I tried to pretend there was a cable that we rolled up and who drew the l...”

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Course summary for: Record Cover Design with Pencil Illustration Techniques

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (12)
253 students
4 units
21 lessons (4h 37m)
3 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Typography

Charlotte Delarue

A course by Charlotte Delarue

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Art Director Specialized in Illustration

Charlotte Delarue is an art director specialized in illustration. Drawing has always been an important part of her life, so naturally she chose to study applied arts at EPSAA. She worked for seven years for the Surface to Air studio, an experience that allowed her to try her hand at everything and create her very first illustrations for the music industry.

She finally moved to New York and began a freelance career that allowed her to hone her style with a mechanical pencil. Since then, she has worked in the press for the likes of So Press, Les Inrocks, the Wall Street Journal, and Society, for music artists such as Metronomy, Selena Gomez, Yarol, and Clara Luciani, and start-ups like Glossier, Etendard Management, and Sourcewhere.