Illustrator: Digitizing and Refining Sketches

Von Glitschka develops an illustration based on iconic Native American imagery, drawing a rough sketch and transforming it into crisp vector artwork with Adobe Illustrator.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. From Concept to Sketch

• Developing initial mockups and combining them into a rough composite
• Taking the rough composite to a refined sketch
• Getting started on the refined sketch
• Sketching downy feathers in the tribal style
• Determining the profiles of additional feathers
• Finalizing the sketch for Illustrator

2. From Drawing to Vectors

• Importing your sketch
• Creating the face in vectors
• Drawing the side feathers in vectors
• Sketching in the headband
• Creating the quill in vectors
• Drawing the ponytail
• Creating the down in vectors
• Drawing feathers
• Continuing to draw the feathers
• Uniting vector shapes
• Colorizing the vector image