Design and Illustration of Incredible Characters

Crawling

A course by Christian Michel , Graphic designer and illustrator

99% positive reviews (175)

2,409 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Crawling

Overview

“We will take advantage to reinforce some basic knowledge, discovering the primordial tools of Illustrator. We will familiarize ourselves with the interface of the program and you will undoubtedly discover a few tricks or simple ways to use the tools.”

In this video lesson Christian Michel addresses the topic: Crawling, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Illustration of Incredible Characters. Learn to draw fantastic characters like a professional.

Partial transcription of the video

“Well as in everything, let's start Little by little. On this occasion, we will do it crawling. You'll see how Illustrator works, where are the windows, the tools, and we'll see some of the most basic to trace and you will end up discovering my favorite. After knowing the Autotrace tool that Illustrator has, which I think is the fastest way, the first way to vectorize, very simple, where we leave all the work to the computer... But without a doubt, I think it is not the most effective. And more when we want to have some quality in the stroke and we don't have to go back to fix certain things...”

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Course summary for: Design and Illustration of Incredible Characters

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (175)
2409 students
6 units
26 lessons (5h 24m)
10 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Christian Michel

A course by Christian Michel

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Graphic designer and illustrator

Christian Michel has always been surrounded by art and as a child he was clear about his vocation as an illustrator. He studied graphic design at the Universidad Anáhuac del Sur (Mexico), where he also had the opportunity to offer a chair. He founded the Visual Infection studio, based in Mexico City and San Antonio, specializing in packaging design, illustration and advertising, where he works for companies around the world.

He has exhibited part of his work collectively in Mexico City, Toulouse, Barcelona, Finland, Berlin and New York. Recently he has dedicated himself to share his work and experience as a lecturer in Mexico and abroad. Part of his work can be seen in specialized publications, in all kinds of products and in well-known advertising campaigns.