Digital Illustration: When Color Meets Imagination

Learn to improve your creative workflow and design vibrant illustrations that capture your unique style using Photoshop and Illustrator

• Introduction
• Preproduction
• The Project
• From Analog to Digital
• Finalizing Your Drawing
• Final project

By combining color with creative illustration techniques, you can capture the energy of your favorite place. Illustrator Rick Berkelmans likes to visualize communities, relationships between people, and their surroundings as part of his drawing process. He runs his own studio, Hedof, where he has worked with clients including Google, YouTube, Facebook, and The New York Times.

In this course, Rick teaches you how to train your imagination to be more creative and design colorful illustrations using digital tools. Choose one of your favorite locations and use it to illustrate a bold and powerful art print ready to share with the world. Take your sketches to the next level.

• About Me
• Influences
• What You Need to Know before You Start
• About Sketching
• About Style
• References and Initial Sketches
• Refining Your Sketches
• Creating the Final Illustration
• Preparation
• Tracing and Converting Lines into Shapes 1
• Tracing and Converting Lines into Shapes 2
• How Screen Printing Affected My Work
• Choosing a Color Palette
• Coloring Your Shapes
• Refining Your Colors
• Creating Textures and Patterns
• Adding Patterns, Textures, and Final Details
• Final Illustrations and Other Examples
• Digital Art: When Color Meets Imagination