Illustrated Posters

Concept and sketch

A course by Xavi Forné , Designer

Designer. Badalona, Spain.
Joined March 2009
99% positive reviews (417)
5,074 students
Audio: Spanish
Spanish · English · Portuguese

About the video: Concept and sketch

Overview

“We take pencil and paper and draw the key points of the poster. We will decide where to place the text and how to balance the image. In this lesson I explain how.”

In this video lesson Xavi Forné addresses the topic: Concept and sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Posters. Design a poster for an event, movie, or concert.

Partial transcription of the video

“[Music] We have reached the key moment to start drawing our poster idea I have prepared some images that ... are the ones that I have selected for ... to form the image, but most importantly to start, is to draw the lines that are going to be that will delimit the poster In this case I am going to make it vertical. [Music] It's a quick sketch, you don't have to kill yourself with that you don't really have to know how to draw, I don't have a lot of idea, but it's basically to draw the dots that you think you have to represent in the poster, ok, then we have seen that the Houdini posters the...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Posters

  • Level: Beginner
  • 99% positive reviews (417)
  • 5074 students
  • 4 units
  • 16 lessons (3h 25m)
  • 5 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Advertising, Fine Arts, Poster Design

Xavi Forné

Xavi Forné
A course by Xavi Forné

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Xavi Forné started making his first posters 15 years ago as a hobby and is now one of the most respected Spanish artists in the field.

This designer, illustrator, and musician is the brilliant mind behind Error! Design. He's worked alongside international bands such as The Black Keys, Red Fang, Soundgarden, Wilco, Anathema, Neurosis, Russian Circles, Ólafur Arnalds, Mineral, Turbonegro, Pissed Jeans, Nada Surf, and Tortoise, as well as with some of Spains most prominent bands like La Maravillosa Orquesta del Alcohol, Berri Txarrak, Love of Lesbian, Standstill, and L.A.

He is the founder of The Poster Collective, the first concert poster portal made up solely of Spanish designers, and in his spare time he has hundreds of musical projects on the go.


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  • Audio: Spanish
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Illustrated Posters. Illustration course by Xavi Forné

Illustrated Posters

A course by Xavi Forné
Designer. Badalona, Spain.
Joined March 2009
  • 99% positive reviews (417)
  • 5,074 students