Illustrating and Designing a Custom Deck of Playing Cards with Adobe Illustrator
How to Use Templates and Sketching
A course by Billy Baumann , Graphic designer and illustrator
About the video: How to Use Templates and Sketching
Overview
“This is where all the planning and inspiration has already happened and you’re going to get into the meat and potatoes and make some art. ”
In this video lesson Billy Baumann addresses the topic: How to Use Templates and Sketching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrating and Designing a Custom Deck of Playing Cards with Adobe Illustrator. Discover the creative process behind custom card design. Learn to sketch, design, and illustrate in Adobe Illustrator for a consistent style..
Partial transcription of the video
“So in the last lesson, we got inspired, which is really the fun part. In this next lesson, we're going to be taking an inspiration and we're going to be sketching right in the template. So let's get to it. Let's go back to our list here of what I'm doing. So I'm starting with. Zeus. King of Spades. Just because he's maybe the most well-known, it might be the easiest to start with for me. So let's go back to our sketch file. I've got all my inspiration here. I even got way more than this that I've collected. Tons of research, tons of thinking about this. So now that everything's loaded in my...”
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Course summary for: Illustrating and Designing a Custom Deck of Playing Cards with Adobe Illustrator
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Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Screen Printing, Vector Illustration
Billy Baumann
A course by Billy Baumann
Billy Baumann is a graphic designer, illustrator, and co-founder of the Chicago-based studio Delicious Design League. With over two decades of experience in branding, packaging, and screen-printed posters, he has built a career blending commercial design with bold, personal expression. His work draws from a deep love for vintage aesthetics, comics, and experimental typography, and has earned him recognition across music, design, and art communities.
Billy’s creative process centers on storytelling through structure and style. He guides students from raw sketches to finished vector illustrations, emphasizing design fundamentals, stylistic cohesion, and practical execution in Adobe Illustrator. Whether designing a custom deck of cards or leading client projects, he champions creative independence and encourages playful exploration rooted in strong conceptual thinking. His teaching offers practical tools and inspiration for turning ideas into polished, portfolio-ready work.
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