Illustration in a folk style is an interesting way of expressing stories. It gives you a wide world of styles and ideas to help your creativity to reach the sky! In this class, I will show you how to illustrate a folk story using Adobe Illustrator.

You will get to know the artistic process that will make it easier for you to achieve the best results in your illustration. I will walk you through the whole process, from:

Choosing the folk story and breaking it into basic elements
Getting inspiration and discovering folk art styles
Generating motifs from actual objects around you
Creating decorative elements to make your illustration more visually pleasing
The sketching process starting with thumbnail sketches and refining the best sketches
And finally illustrating your final piece using Adobe Illustrator

By the end of this class we will be able to produce an illustration like this:

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(This illustration is a representation of a folk story from the Kadazan ethnic group in Sabah state in Malaysian Borneo island)

This class is for anyone who is passionate about illustration and folk art. You can either follow with me in using Adobe Illustrator if you have a good knowledge of it or you can simply use any other software that you are comfortable with. The goal here is to have fun, to learn and to enjoy the process!

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Rawan Asiri

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