Creating Commercial Illustrations

Master illustrator Bert Monroy walks though the process of creating realistic commercial illustrations with Photoshop.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Magazine Cover

• Project overview
• Establishing perspective and basic shapes
• Creating the lamp shape
• Detailing the lamp shade
• Detailing the body of the lamp
• Creating the base of the lamp
• Designing the lamp lighting
• Creating the wood floor texture
• Separating the wood texture into planks
• Creating the reflections on the wood floor
• Creating the bush
• Incorporating the bush and shadow into the scene
• Creating the book
• Creating the marquee light bulb base
• Creating the marquee light bulb

2. Temperature Control Unit

• Project overview
• Creating the grill path
• Creating the grill face
• Creating the bolt paths
• Colorizing the bolts
• Shaping and coloring the button base
• Shaping and coloring the face of the button
• Creating the cutaway

3. Nail Polish Bottle

• Project overview
• Creating the basic shape of the nail polish bottle
• Adding color to the exterior of the bottle
• Adding color to the nail polish
• Incorporating shadow to the bottle
• Adding shadows to the glass
• Detailing the bottle cap
• Adding the logo
• Adding the main shadow and final touches

4. Eye Shadow Compact

• Project overview
• Establishing the perspective
• Building the compact shape
• Adding highlights and tones to the compact
• Creating the compact drawer paths
• Colorizing the drawer
• Creating the contents of the drawer
• Adding color tones in the drawer
• Detailing the compact with highlights and shadows
• Adding the final shadow and finishing touches

Conclusion

• Next steps