Painting Skateboard Graphics in Illustrator
In this Illustrator tutorial, we will focus on creating hand-painted skateboard artwork that pays homage to vintage zombie comics. Software required: Illustrator CS5.
What you'll learn
In this Illustrator tutorial, we will focus on creating hand-painted skateboard artwork that pays homage to vintage zombie comics. For many designers, Adobe Illustrator is a program used daily for tasks such as building logos. While its tools and vector results make it perfect for these types of projects, as you might have guessed, it's also a powerful painting program. In this course, we will focus on painting our image and utilizing several of the tools inside Illustrator to make it feel less like a vector image. Along the way, we'll learn about tools like the brush tool, blob brush and eraser tool and how we can use them to help us get to our end result. Throughout this course, we will focus on removing the software from the equation so we can focus on the art. After completing this course, you'll be familiar with the tools, techniques, and processes used to create this comic book-inspired zombie image. Software required: Illustrator CS5.
Table of contents
- Getting Started and File Setup 10m
- Inking Process: Outlining 13m
- Inking Process: Blocking in Shadows 12m
- Inking Process: Detail Work 12m
- Painting the Background 10m
- Painting Flat Colors for the Zombie 8m
- Blocking in the Blood 11m
- Detailing the Blood 9m
- Blocking in Shadows 10m
- Softening Selective Shadows 8m
- Painting Highlights on the Zombie 9m
- Adding Type and Finishing Touches 16m