Exploring Illustration: Manual and Digital Techniques

Exploring Illustration: Manual and Digital Techniques

“Thank you for following me this far in this course. I'm happy to share with you some of the techniques I use, and I hope they can help you unlock your creativity and inspire you to play and create your own game rules so you can have fun illustrating. I invite you to unleash your imagination and create your own project from scratch. I'm sharing with you an example of how I'd like to see your project process: Drawing Create your library of materials using the drawing materials of your choice, and digitize them using a scanner or cell phone.

Colors Create your color palette based on an image you like. Composition Start your composition by mixing shapes, colors, and textures from your library. The project Add photomontage details and typography. Export your file for web and print. I strongly encourage you to share the results of your work on the forum, sharing the discoveries you made during the process, as well as any difficulties you may have encountered. Illustration work is often very solitary, and sharing information about the path we take in our composition can be a very enriching exercise, so take the opportunity to share your experience and also comment on the work of your classmates. I'm looking forward to what you produce with your graphic experiments. See you on the forum!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Thanks for sticking with me through this course. Expanding my joy in sharing techniques to inspire your creativity. i aim to demonstrate the freedom of creating personal artistic rules through enjoyable illustration experiments. The absence of a definitive correct method for drawing encourages starting with gentle. unstructured exploration to foster unique expression and enjoyment. to reach an interesting result in your drawing. I invite you to try different materials and leave the a blank page behind. Let illustrating be an activity where you feel free to experiment without fear of mistake...”

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Course summary for: Exploring Illustration: Manual and Digital Techniques

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (1)
• 79 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 2m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Colored Pencil Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration