Vector Illustration for Vibrant Compositions
Creating the Line Drawings 1
A course by Erikas Chesonis , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Creating the Line Drawings 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to bring your sketches into Adobe Illustrator to build and turn them into more developed line art using the “Pen Tool", “Shape Builder”, “Clipping Mask”, and more.”
In this video lesson Erikas Chesonis addresses the topic: Creating the Line Drawings 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Vector Illustration for Vibrant Compositions. Create simple vector graphics and transform them into cohesive compositions that reflect your artistic style by exploring typeface, color, and texture.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating The Line Drawings Now that we've developed and finalized our sketches, in this lesson, we'll bring them into Adobe Illustrator, where we'll create the vector line art by using the Pen tool, Shape Builder, clipping masks and many more tools. Let's get to it. So, with our sketches ready to go, we're going to hop into Adobe Illustrator, which is a vector program. Programs like Photoshop and Procreate are raster, which means they use individual pixels to create your art, whereas a vector program like Illustrator uses shapes, and math, and points to create your art, which makes it much ...”
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Course summary for: Vector Illustration for Vibrant Compositions
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Vector Illustration

Erikas Chesonis
A course by Erikas Chesonis
Erikas Chesonis is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Austin, Texas. He’s been drawing his whole life, and started creating sports logos and uniforms in early high school while learning to use Photoshop. He later went on to study marketing and communications with a minor in information design. Alongside his studies, he continued to learn through online tutorials while creating artwork for friends, as well as event posters that were displayed on campus. After graduating, Erikas began working at different agencies on branding, web design, and presentations.
Since then, he’s worked as an in-house designer for Apple, as well as with brands like HP. Erikas currently works as a designer at Seige Media, helping to make information easily digestible through illustration for brands like Audible, Intuit, and more.
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