Vector Portrait with Manual Textures
Traced in Illustrator (part 1)
A course by Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Traced in Illustrator (part 1)
Overview
“I will show you how to make the layout taking as reference a photograph I will tell you how I perform this process, my favorite tools and some tips that will help you face the vector layout.”
In this video lesson Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo addresses the topic: Traced in Illustrator (part 1), which is part of the Domestika online course: Vector Portrait with Manual Textures. Create unique illustrations by combining digital images with handmade textures.
Partial transcription of the video
“Traced in Illustrator and color In this lesson we will draw our reference image. We are going to start plotting work. For that, we open the software, in this case I do it in Illustrator, we create a new file, I will use the A3 format, I will immediately save the file, "Domestika", Save, First we will bring the image that we already have prepared To start the path. For that we go to File, Place and bring the image of the character, in this case the image is larger than the format that I defined, but I'll leave it that way because the bigger the image, we have more detail, we can get closer t...”
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Course summary for: Vector Portrait with Manual Textures
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Vector Illustration
Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo
A course by Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo
Álvaro Tapia Hidalgo is a graphic designer and illustrator from Viña del Mar, Chile with a degree in design from La Universidad de Valparaíso and another one in film from La Escuela de Cine de Chile.
He spent over a decade working on graphic-design projects as an art director while also tackling audiovisual projects as a film director and post-production specialist. In 2011, he decided to focus exclusively on illustration, combining traditional and digital techniques to achieve his own distinctive style.
His work has been featured in international publications such as The New Yorker, ESPN, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and New York Magazine, and he has also collaborated with top brands like adidas, PUMA, Heineken, Mahindra, Atomic, and Marc Ecko. Additionally, his work has been displayed in a number of exhibitions, galleries, and museums in countries all over the world, including the United States, Germany, England, Italy, the Netherlands, Colombia, Croatia, Argentina, Spain, and Chile.
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