I hope you're ready to make some fun shapes based on your favorite hobby, movie, game, band, etc!

I'm going to walk you through my full process and we'll end up with something in the world of this:

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Here are the Illustrator Plug-ins I use in case you want to try a free trial

https://account.astutegraphics.com/#/auth/register?referrer=kwallace

Why learn from me?

I've been a full-time professional illustrator for over 10 years working with brands like Adobe, Apple, Facebook, and Google. I am always hired for my unique style. Whenever the question pops up, "What software do you use?" people are surprised to hear me say, "Adobe Illustrator",

For me, my sketches are just fine, but my work really takes flight in Illustrator. I treat the software like a playground where I can make shapes, resize, rotate, cut and paste my artwork a million times until I've got results I'm happy with.

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Final results

In this course, l'll take you through my full process of creating an "Essentials of" poster. We'll choose whatever our favorite hobby is right now, could be a your favorite movie, camping, a recipe, whatever!

Our piece will consist of a bunch of smaller illustrations that when all wrapped together, will create a larger illustration. It takes a lot of the pressure off the big image, and puts it mostly on just simply drawing things' we like.

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Process

We'll go through these steps to get our final result:

Ideas - how to go beyond the obvious ideas, and balance the obscure with the easy to understand
Sketching - I'll show you my tricks to getting unique results for shape-based illustration
Vectoring - This is the fun part for me, l'm excited to show you all my shortcuts and the way I "play" in illustrator
Composition - We'll build out our composition from small illustrations that stack together to make a fuller image.
Color - I'll include some color palettes and show you my easy "paint by numbers" coloring process
Details - once we're all locked in on the above, it's time to add some fun extra details that really bring things to life
Textures - Lastly we'll bring our artwork into photoshop and do some basic texturing process and tricks.

In the end, we'll have a poster with 10+ items related to your favorite hobby that are all working together in unison to create an "Essentials of... (baseball/apple pie/ballet/Star Trek/knitting/etc) poster"

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RESOURCES

For textures, you're often able to find some free stuff on google that is royalty free by Google Image searching "paper texture"

Retro Supply Co

There's some good freebie brushes here by Retro Supply Co. as well as plenty of great paid

https://www.retrosupply.co/pages/freebies

True Grit Texture Supply

https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com/

they have a great free sampler -

https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com/pages/free-procreate-photoshop-brushes

Creative Market always has some nice stuff -

https://creativemarket.com/graphics/textures/paper

Thomas Majcherek

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