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Illustrator: Digitizing and Refining Sketches

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Overview

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.

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Von Glitschka

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