Classic Illustration – Drawing From Objects & Images

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.