Classic Illustration - Drawing From Objects & Images

ABOUT THIS CLASS

This class is for anyone who wants to learn to create artistic, sophisticated and life like illustrations to use for different purposes - like art prints, greeting cards, stationery, pattern designs or illustrations for books, websites and magazines. With the help of an easy step-by-step process you will learn to draw your illustration by hand, from a real object or image/images and turn the drawing into a monochromatic and vectorized illustration. You can be a total beginner when it comes to drawing!

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Planning you illustration, choosing style and create a vision of what you want to draw and illustrate.
  
  
• Building you motif from big outlines down to details.
  
  
• Find the characteristic shapes and lines.
  
  
• Include and exclude components for a distilled version that is unique for you.
  
  
• Two techniques for making shadows, light and texture to make your illustration come alive and get that 3D-look.
  
  
• Tracing your drawing.
  
  
• How to scan your illustration.
  
  
• How to turn your illustration into a vectorized image using Adobe Illustrator.
  
  
• How to edit your illustration in Adobe Illustrator.
  
  
• How to print your illustration in the best possible way.

• Intro to Artistic Illustrations - Learn how to draw from objects
• Class Overview
• About illustrations
• Techniques and my process
• Preparations
• Practicing Characteristics
• Drawing your motif
• Tracing
• Scanning
• Vectorizing
• Editing
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