How to create cool textures for digital creations

Overview

“While the focus of this course is on texture creation, we still want to ensure that your Illustrator file is in a good place technically before you begin creating and applying textures. This lesson will give you a rundown on how to execute an illustration—from the concept sketches to choosing colors, and some tips to get you ready for the texture stage. ”

In this video lesson Matt McCracken and Ross Proulx addresses the topic: Setting up the Illustration, which is part of the Domestika online course: How to create cool textures for digital creations. Make your art prints stand out by creating unique and cool textures..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we're going to give a brief overview on how we'll render our concept sketch in Illustrator and ensure the file is in good shape for our texture application later on. Let's check it out. So now that you have your final sketch chosen, you're going to bring it into Illustrator to trace over. Remember, this is just to make your life easier. You're using your sketch as a blueprint, and you're building out your shapes within your artboard and getting a feel for the composition. As we mentioned earlier, the level of density and overlap and that sort of thing. And although the sketc...”

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Course summary for: How to create cool textures for digital creations

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (26)
• 857 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 38m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Art Direction, Graphic Design, Poster Design