Vector Illustration for Vibrant Compositions

The Final Touches: Creating Cohesion

A course by Erikas Chesonis , Graphic Designer and Illustrator

100% positive reviews (85)

2,649 students

Audio: English

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About the video: The Final Touches: Creating Cohesion

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you how to use repeating patterns, shapes, and a consistent level of detail to ensure that the final layout looks cohesive, despite consisting of many illustrations. We will focus on adding final touches and tweaks to bring the poster to completion.”

In this video lesson Erikas Chesonis addresses the topic: The Final Touches: Creating Cohesion, 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

“The Final Touches Creating Cohesion In the last lesson, we talked about how to be creative with our composition by thinking openly and playfully. Now we're going to finalize our posters by adding some final touches and making sure all these separated puzzle pieces are looking cohesive with each other. Let's finish it up. With the bulk of our laying out completed, this is the time to take a step back and make sure everything is looking consistent and cohesive. It can quickly start to look like a jumbled mess if we're using lots of different ideas and styles, and illustrations. Definitely don...”

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Course summary for: Vector Illustration for Vibrant Compositions

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (85)
2649 students
5 units
20 lessons (3h 45m)
7 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Illustrator
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Vector Illustration

Erikas Chesonis

A course by Erikas Chesonis

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Graphic Designer and Illustrator

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.