Playful Shapes: Crafting Fun Everyday Objects in Adobe Illustrator

Illustrator feel stiff and boring for you? Well it’s not just for logos, grids, and typography! I use illustrator to make all of my playful, silly, vibrant illustrations. I’m here to share my workflow from idea to final result in this project.

In this course, we’ll make an “Essentials of” poster. It’ll be made up of a bunch of smaller ordinary drawings of your favorite hobby, but drawn in an exciting, stylized way!

This class is about making exciting shapes in Adobe Illustrator and finding ways to have fun in the software.

By the end, you should feel like illustrator is a sandbox to experiment in.

What You Will Learn

• All of this course will be a good mix of both philosophy and ideas, along with technical tips.
• Ideas – drawing the obvious is boring, I want to show you how to dig a bit deeper on our ideas,
• Sketching – We’ll cover my ‘draw things a thousand times until it feels unique technique
• Illustrator – this is a big chunk of the course, from basic vectoring to coloring and shadowy details, l’m excited to show you every tip and trick that’s relevant
• Photoshop – My texturing workflow is really fun and simple and versatile. I’m excited to share this with you.
• Exporting and sharing