Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration
Final Touches and Export
A course by Tania Yakunova , Illustrator
About the video: Final Touches and Export
Overview
“We've reached the last step of the illustration process. I will check a few details and make some final adjustments such as cropping and color grading. Finally, I will explain how you can export your image so it is ready to share with others and online.”
In this video lesson Tania Yakunova addresses the topic: Final Touches and Export, 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
“ Final Touches and Export In this lesson, I will show you how to finish your illustration, and give you some tips about exporting the image. Now, I have all the nice details ready. Before finishing my illustration, I want to check a few things. First, I want to see if I am satisfied with the cropping I have here. Sometimes I like to play a bit with cropping. Here's the Crop Tool. Maybe I want a closer shot or I want to change it a bit. For this illustration, I'll stay with the cropping I have, but it might be interesting to try different variants. Then, I want to check if I need any color ...”
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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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