Creating Narrative Illustrations in Illustrator
Illustrator is a powerful vector graphics program that many artists believe is just for logos. Software required: Illustrator CS6, Photoshop CS6.
What you'll learn
Illustrator is a powerful vector graphics program that many artists believe is just for logos. We're here to tell you this just isn't the case. As we'll see in this training, we can create some really great, powerful illustrations all right inside of Illustrator. While working through this illustration, we will learn several different methods for quickly creating a variety of custom shapes including the pen tool, the pencil tool and the blob brush. We'll learn how we can utilize Photoshop's brush engine to create shapes for noise or structure that we can use in Illustrator. We will also learn how we can include things like gradients, transparency and blend modes in our illustrations. After completing this Illustrator tutorial, you should have a strong understanding of the tools and techniques as well as my thought process in creating a strong narrative illustration all inside Adobe Illustrator. Software required: Illustrator CS6, Photoshop CS6.
Table of contents
- Reviewing the Composition and Setting up the Illustrator File 12m
- Creating Structural Shapes in Photoshop 13m
- Blocking in the Foreground Shapes 10m
- Blocking in the Mid-ground Shapes 11m
- Blocking in the Background Shapes 11m
- Drawing Trunk Detail for the Foreground Trees 9m
- Adding Color to the Bark Detail for the Foreground Trees 11m
- Creating the Base Foliage for Our Trees 13m
- Breaking up the Mountains in the Background 11m
- Building the River Using a Gradient Mesh 9m
- Creating Color Variation in the Waterfall 10m
- Creating Water Spray for the Waterfall 13m
- Blending the Background with Texture Shapes 10m
- Adding Mid-ground Detail 13m
- Adding a Silhouetted Raft 11m
- Adding in Final Details 10m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more