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Drawing Vector Graphics: Color and Detail

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Tags

Vector Art Courses Adobe Illustrator Courses Color Theory Courses Texturing Courses Custom Brushes Courses

Course Description

Overview

Add depth, texture, and color to your designs with Adobe Illustrator, and make your illustrations more visually effective.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Adding color and detail to vector graphics
1. Creative Foundation
  • Choosing a style
  • Drawing your artwork
  • Building your vector shapes
2. Lighting
  • Establishing light sources
  • Drawing your light source
  • How light affects color
3. Colors
  • Using a color wheel
  • Color dimensions: Hue, value, intensity
  • How color affects other colors
  • Using global colors
  • Base colors
  • Shadow colors
  • Highlight colors and refinement
  • Coloring with tonal families
  • Using color for emotion
  • Shading with cool and warm hues
  • Creating with the Recolor tool
4. Detailing Methods
  • Using gradients, blend modes, and opacity
  • Gradient blend detailing
  • Radial gradient lighting effect
  • Spot detailing with radial gradients
  • Hot spots and deep shadows
  • Using offset and outline stroke to detail
  • Using custom brushes to detail
  • Using rounding techniques to detail
  • Using layers and masks to improve detailing
  • Using outer and inner glow for detailing
  • Creating form with Gaussian blur
  • Creating motion and depth with Gaussian blur
  • Adding detail using textures
  • Colorizing and detailing flat-based artwork
  • Using multiple methods to detail artwork
5. Color Resources
  • Collecting color
  • REUSE: Million-dollar color books
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Von Glitschka

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