Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration
Lettering and Fine-Tuning
A course by Tania Yakunova , Illustrator
About the video: Lettering and Fine-Tuning
Overview
“I sometimes like to add some text to my illustration. In this case, I'd like to include the name of the city. You'll see how I work on hand lettering as just another element of drawing, merging it with the composition. Once that is done, I'll import my sketch onto Procreate and fine-tune the details in order to get a refined sketch.”
In this video lesson Tania Yakunova addresses the topic: Lettering and Fine-Tuning, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration. Learn how to draw characters with personality by exploring shapes, movement, proportions, and scale to amplify their expressiveness.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Lettering and Fine-Tuning In this lesson, we'll add lettering to your sketch and fine-tune the details. I want to add the name of the city to my sketch. In most cases, hand lettering looks the best with the illustration, at least the illustrations I do. I want to show you how I work with lettering. The best way to think of the lettering in your illustration is as a drawing. Don't think about it as a writing or as a font. Think of it as a drawing, so it's another element of your artwork. I used to be afraid of lettering because I thought that I have ugly handwriting, but then I realized th...”
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Course summary for: Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Tania Yakunova
A course by Tania Yakunova
Tania Yakunova is an illustrator from Kyiv. As a child, she was always interested in drawing, inspired by her grandfather who was a professional artist. She began studying at art school at the age of 7, and after graduating from university, began working as a copywriter. Tania later went back to school to study design and discovered a love for illustration in particular, which she put into practice working in a motion design studio alongside freelance projects in everything from editorial illustration to packaging design.
Since then, she’s become a full-time freelancer and has exhibited her work in galleries in France, the US, Germany, Italy, and the UK. Tania has worked with brands like Coca-Cola, Google, Upwork, Penguin Random House, Amazon, Visa Gold, Yves Rocher, and Facebook. She also runs her own poster shop.
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