Add depth, texture, and color to your designs with Adobe Illustrator, and make your illustrations more visually effective.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Adding color and detail to vector graphics
- Choosing a style
- Drawing your artwork
- Building your vector shapes
- Establishing light sources
- Drawing your light source
- How light affects color
- Using a color wheel
- Color dimensions: Hue, value, intensity
- How color affects other colors
- Using global colors
- Base colors
- Shadow colors
- Highlight colors and refinement
- Coloring with tonal families
- Using color for emotion
- Shading with cool and warm hues
- Creating with the Recolor tool
- Using gradients, blend modes, and opacity
- Gradient blend detailing
- Radial gradient lighting effect
- Spot detailing with radial gradients
- Hot spots and deep shadows
- Using offset and outline stroke to detail
- Using custom brushes to detail
- Using rounding techniques to detail
- Using layers and masks to improve detailing
- Using outer and inner glow for detailing
- Creating form with Gaussian blur
- Creating motion and depth with Gaussian blur
- Adding detail using textures
- Colorizing and detailing flat-based artwork
- Using multiple methods to detail artwork
- Collecting color
- REUSE: Million-dollar color books
- Goodbye
Taught by
Von Glitschka
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