Creative Poster Design #002

1. Creative Poster Design #002 Intro: Hello everyone. My name is Marcus and I'm a senior designer and animator based in London. And today in this class, I will share with you how to create history of typographic posters inside Adobe Illustrator. On the first force that will create this discussion tax effect. Then we'll add shadows and to make a real nice layout, photo texts or even. On a second poster, we'll learn how to create custom distortion seasoned Illustrator pucker tool. We will start by designing a few sketches. Then we'll choose one to refine and make our final design and layout pulsar. We will use this torsion perspective tools to create a movement in our design. After that, we are going to use the eraser tool for slice architects into pieces. And to finish off that, we start heading some details using Illustrator factual pressures. This class is for all skill levels. I will explain each step in detail so we don't miss anything. By the end of the class, you will have a great understanding of Illustrator distortion tools. You will be able to create your own custom distortions and learn how to use multiple tools to achieve an interesting visuals for your posters. I will share all of that and some other cheeks and dips during the process. As a class project, I will invite you to design this trip posters using the techniques learned in class. So let's get started. I'll see you in the first class. 2. L01 - Poster 01: Document Setup and Design: Welcome to the first lesson. So let's start. So the first thing I'm going to share with you is I'm using the workspace, essential classics, which is like if we all use the same workspace will be easier for you to find the tools I'm using. And well, you can use your own workspace, but I just want to be sure like if someone is new to Illustrator, I'm using the workspace, Essential Classics to make it easy. So the first thing we're going to do is let's create a new artboard. So let's go to New. And let's use this resolution here. I'm using a tree resolution for a poster, which is treat other 600 by 5400. And I'm going to name this file as poster 1988. Let's press Create, and that's it. Actually, I need to drag to the screen here and perfect. So the first thing you want to do is just let's get our layers out of there. So because we are going to be using them a lot, it's easier to have them as quick as possible. So the first layer I want to create, it's a background layer. Let's just name background and less just create. Now let's just ties and feeder, just background. Let's go to our shape tool here. Let's go to rectangle tool and just create a really nice rectangle with the same size of the art board like this. And I'm going to use a really dark gray, maybe something like 101, something more like this. Perfect. And just going to lock this for now. So next thing, let's choose our member. And I used 1988 just because it's my year I was born. So right now I'm just sharing my age and well, yeah, I'm not I don't see myself as old Burwell. And let's just select a lighter color. Let's go to a light gray, something like this. And let's say it's also a nice font I'm going to use for Tura for this exercise. I think for tour is a really nice font and it works really well, or this type of typeface posters. And yeah, I think it's a good choice. You can use any other sensory font. I will recommend using a sensory font because we use a font like with serifs. He actually k1 head because they come with more detail. I think the effects when you are distorting the detail can run it a little bit, but just, you can use any, any other for the ones just to be sure to think about that. Let's just select it and let's just right-click and create outlines. And slightly again, right-click and ungroup it. Let's create a really nice composition here with the numbers, something like this, such as group them so I can actually align them a little bit less. Select them both. Object, Ungroup, Object, ungroup them. So I'm going to select them and the leg with the alignment tools here, just to be sure they are perfectly aligned. And I'm going to scale this down a little bit for now. And yeah, I think even if we just leave the postal FDA's, it looks really nice. I think the numbers and the font for today helps to create a really nice visual. But do we actually only class? We actually take this a little bit further to let select it. And next time we're going to do is just go into effects and Trudy and materials through the classic and rotate classic. So here you converted your files. Actually just cancel this. We need to be sure to group them before we do that actually, let's go to object ungroup, and then go back to today and materials rotate. So what this tells, it gives you the possibility of rotating your graphic in a three-dimensional axis. So you can just play around with it. So you can to, as the angle you want, customize all can actually, there is some presets here that you can use if you just like, you know what you want. And here is a nice place to find, like even isometric perspective, which is really cool. And for this exercise we're actually going to use an isometric top one. Then press OK and perfect, Let's just scale the ice a little bit up. Somebody more or less like this. And less just go to Object again and expand appearance. Now we're just going to ungroup this and just going to delete this little clipping mask that it was curated here, like right-click, Release Clipping Mask, and select it and delete it. So yeah, it's even just like this is very, even just the movement of the perspective and the, and the numbers creates such a nice visual when you have such high contrast that, that, that actually cooled. See somebody like a could actually have these hanging on my or my room right now, which will be really cool. So yeah, this is for the first lesson. On the second lesson, we're actually going to start to add some distortions and apply some really nice shading effects on it. So yeah, I see you in the next lesson. 3. L02 - Poster 01: Distortion and Shading: So the first thing we're going to need to do, it looks just like this numbers. And let's name this layer for 1988. And just so we have a little bit of organization happening here. So let's select these numbers. Then go to Edit and go to Copy and lock this layer and create a new layer under the 988 layer. And let's paste in place like this. So let's just actually just turn the 1988, 1988 layer. Maybe I will change this to color layer. So it's easy to say. And let's change these numbers here to a darker color. So what is this going to do is creating these like shading, like shade effect. Let's lock this shallow layer and less on love this one, the color one. So let's ungroup these elements. We can just right-click, select them and right-click and Ungroup. And let's go to Object and Envelope, Distort and Distort Make with Mesh. So here we can actually change the numbers of mesh definition we want. So each point here you can actually, it's a distortion point. So depending on what you want to start an homage, do you want to distort it? You can increase or decrease a number. I think for this exercise we can just go with length three. It will be enough because it's not a very complex shape and we don't want to go crazy in there distortions anyway. So let just select our direct, direct selection tool here. And let's select these two points from the number one. And let's just pull it up just like this. See, it's already created a really nice effect. So that layer, the shadow layers creating like this fake shadow happening as if we had like some light source here on the top. And let's do the same thing for the number nine. Now, let's go to envelope, distort, make with mesh. Let's use three as well. Keep it simple. And just select the points we want to pull. Something like maybe I will just select a few of them and see how much distortion can we head without damaging? Because we want to make a nice distortion. What we don't want to damage the shape of the number because we still want to be able to read it and we're all still needs to be looked nice in the end of the day. And well, if we, if we are not proud of that design we've made we then we then we failed and call this one is turned as well and see color. I like to keep this shape a little bit like smooth so that distortion doesn't affect. So it feels more natural, like a little sticker coming out of a paper. And the shadows here helps a lot correct, decide three-dimensionality of the individual. Let's do the same thing for the number eight. Let's just go to Object Envelope Distort with mesh. Three, you'll be enough. I'm going to use the direct selection tool. And just like selecting this, all these corners here, just something like this. Going to do the same thing out, almost done. I don't for the for the number nine there. Just like this. Okay. And let's just make the distortion a little bit more soft. Like see these anchor points actually like they need to follow the flow of the distortion if you, if that makes sense. So that's like this more or less. And yeah. Something like flowing, following the flow. Otherwise he creates like a little jam bit wonder on a design. And unlike here, so you see this edge here doesn't look right. That's because of the distortion point is still like very hard. And yeah, I don't I don't want to go too crazy on this one. I think I will make this one a little bit more dramatic, but I'm just going to lock this one so I don't move them or change them. Just going to open here. And you see these ones when they have like this little squares selected. It means they are the layer selected. So it can just like lock them easily. So there is no risk of you moving at ones. And let's go to Object again. Let's go distort make with mesh. Let's keep it like that. Let's select all these points here. Let's cut. This is like the most close to you object. Let's make it a little bit more dramatic if you if you let me let just pull this up. Just using the rotation as well here to create a really nice distortion thing happening. So, yeah, definitely need some adjustments here. Let's just do them. Let's just maybe this one needs to be flowing a little bit better. And this is really the further. So you want to cut this like really nice waves and just tried to make it match. The, the initial distortion shows like this. So either soda damage the design, as I said before, this, these letters is like when you are working with others, people's phones, you will still want, you can distort them as much as you want, but you still want to keep like some part of their design if you just distorted to a next level and there is nothing left from the beginning, it's just creating something new. So sometimes it's nice to do that. If you, if you want that, you just want to experiment and, and use other people's phone to create your own font. I think that's right. But in this case, I just wanted to, I wanted to keep the boldness of the Futura font as well. So I'm just going to move this one here. And yeah, just trying to keep this flow happening. I think something is odd is happening here. I think I probably need to change something. I don't know, it's hard. I could move this may be a little bit town to select this and make these distortion happening only with more smoother rabies. That's the social yet see, sometimes you just need to, to experimental little bit and see like what's, which anchor point is actually creating that distortion and, and play with it. Just tried to to understand its mission and what is doing in the design. So I'm just going to, maybe we need to push this a little bit up as well, like this. And then yeah, I think this is something something's happening here. Call I think I like it. I just worried about showing the number 9 there. Maybe I want to push this a little bit inside so I don't know if I'm interesting airing that shape there I don't think is going to be. It's going to, it's not going to look nice if you just have liked it. That pointy end of the number nine there. So, so yeah, I think this was said. And now let's just apply some really nice gradients into this so we can actually create like a Elijah, an effect of shading happening. So let's just lock this layer, the color layer for now, and let's just create another layer, and let's call it overlays shadows. Cool. So let's just select, actually unlocked this ones. And let's select them. And let's go to edit, copy. Lock this overlay shadows, Edit, Paste in Place. And let's go to Object, expand them so you can actually see them as vectors and use them for the next step. So next tablets, actually quite easy. It's just, we're going to use like a standard linear gradient. You can just right-click here we have on our swatch library here. You can just click on the middle and get the gradients happening. And using our gradient tool, just right-click on the toolbar. Let's just manipulate the direction of these gradients, like this. Push this a little bit down. Maybe it is to just try to create a really nice shading effect. Something, yeah, sovereignty like this. Let's go to Slide 27, gradient layer here. And let's just actually first, let's just go select and let's go here on the side toolbar. And let's select the color white here, and let's make it 0%. So we go from black to transparent. So it creates like because we're going to overlay other gradients over it. We don't want to be overlaying like in another color, just seeing the color of the shape. And let's just select these layers. Again. Let's go to Edit and Copy and Paste. Paste in place, sorry. And let's just change the direction of the gradient like this, trying to get the effect of shading there as well. And let's just maybe move it a little bit further. And move the color like this. And perfect something in the order of this. Let's do the same thing for number nine. Let's just go to Edit, Copy and Paste in Place. Let's us use our eye drop tool here just to copy the gradient and, you know, save those seconds. And just make it a little bit like this. Let's play around with the shading here. You can move it, see how it looks better. So right now we actually have number 8 here. It needs to move forward. Let's just selected and let's go to arrange and bring to front. I just sorry, I didn't explain that step. You just selected the right-click and then you go to arrange and bring to front like this. And let's just do the same thing. Edit, copy, edit, paste in place. Let's get our high drop tool, the gradient. And let's just change the direction of the gradient here. Tried to create a really nice shading happening here as well. Maybe just move that gradient a little bit. So you play with this. Yeah, it looks, it looks really nice already. Let's just maybe I think is too, is not that dark enough as the true. Maybe I should just create a little bit of more shading, but that's probably just a personal taste. And the 1741 Copy, Paste in Place, get the gradient. And let's just play with this gradient situation here as adding some shadows. They're kinda like it, kinda, kinda really happy there, the result already. So this will be it for this lesson. In the next lesson, we're going to just do have some final details and finalize our layout and play with it a little bit of the scale of these elements. And then we'll be ready for the next one. So I see you the next lesson. 4. L03 - Poster 01: Final Layout: So just for the sake of transparency, this will be like this. Designers would probably be a little bit different from the platform before, because my new straighter actually just crashed and I kind of lost it. So actually been using, now going to use this as an example. This was a designer done before for the pulsars. And just for the sake of this exercise, we're just going to use our old version array done. So there's probably some slight differences on the distortions and everything. So the first thing you actually need to do now, it's like some sort of composition with this type. So right now like this, I don't mind it. I think looks up. Looks all right. But I think we can play a little bit more. I like to play with chaos in my designs. Although we only have like these numbers here and we don't want to add anything else to on the designed to create a sense of scale. So a good way to do that when we don't have, like we just have a word or something. And you want to show a little bit of scale on the composition. A good way to do it. You just scale it is just like, let's just group this first. It has to scale up to make it the lipid like bigger than artboard. So this way it goes as I left art board and this way it creates like a sense of scale. Let's, this element is so big that doesn't fit the artboard. So this is a way you can actually use to create some sense of scale. So again, I'm just going to copy the background. And then I'm going to edit and then I'm going to paste in place. And yeah, so if it is still behind all of your letters, you can just right-click and bring it to front. But if it is not, well, let us select them both like this. And let's just go to make a clipping mask just like this. So yeah, I think this is the main, the main design. So next, we're just going to add some elements, like just add a bit more information. Like if you want to like I actually going to just copy the one known I have open. So I just added like a little bit more context. So this is like my year I was born and this is the day I was born. So let's just maybe I'll just do it 19. Let's just scale this a little bit. Like make it white. 19 or forgoes. You can like put anything related to your number. And I am just giving light given more information about it. So kids a little bit of more contexts. So then I was pouring some Paulo on planet art. And there you get the UU getID, right? So sorry, let us go into some Paulo. I like to make it into lines to crystallize a nice composition. Maybe actually, I'm going to pull it like some power like this. And I'm going to write Brazil in the bottom. And then planet hurt. And then if you want to put the galaxy, he can just pull the galaxy, the Milky Way. And let's just select them both. And then using the distribution tools here to be sure it's actually aligned in the center as well. And yeah, I think this is it. We can just duplicate it to make a little bit more elements in a composition. But yeah, this is the first poster done. See what's actually really quick and it's a really nice effect. And like visually, I really liked is the simplicity and the way we play with contrast. And just we use a scale in a different way. So yeah, let's go to the next poster then, and I'll see you in the next class. 5. L04 - Poster 02: Document setup & Inital Sketches: Hello everyone. The next poster. So we're going to use the same resolution as before, 3600 or 5, 5400. And just press Create. The first thing I want you to do, It's 200 order to really like I'm going to use noaa, which is I think it's French. It's French for like a means black French or something. It's dark. And I don't know, I think it's a really, really romantic and pretty words. So I wanted to use, I like to use like keywords in my posters. Sorry, I choose a word and next jus, just choose a nice font. I'm going to use again for Tura. I think for today's such a good font and works really well in, in poster design exercises. So with our phones, decided an hour, well ordered as well. Let's just so-called selected. And while holding Alt and Shift and just drag it down so it can make a copy of it and select it again, What of them? And make another copy. So in this way, we're going to have 444 repetitions of the same word. So that's selected. And let's just make a dish or using the distribution tool here to a vertical distribution like this. Perfect. Let's just go to Object now, and let's go to expand. And let's go fill and fill an object. That's okay. Login to object, ungroup it. So what I want you to do now is just like holding Alt again, just make a copy just for safety here. And the next thing will be, let's just go to our toolbar here and select our artboard tool. And again, let's just drag or our port to the side here and holding Alt again. Let's make a few copies of our artboards. So these copies will help us to create three different sketches. And from those, like initial exercise sketches, we're going to choose one that we're going to take to the next lesson, which will going to finesse the design and end a little bit more refine to the curves of the vectors. So let's just start layer wanna subtleties first one. And let's go here to the toolbar and tried to find the pucker tool here in the distortion tools here, 30 S1 pucker tool. You can click twice to adjust the size of it. I'm using a 600 by 600 and press Okay. And then from the top, top left corner of our letters here, I'm going to start in to this drag and doing this kind of wave movement, not a font. See here where the critter really nice visual. So this will be my first sketch. I'm going to do again. On the next one, I will try to make a different movement to make a different effect. So D like more like this, but beautiful and as well. Although I think I am feeling maybe not on this one, but this one I'm feeling I'm losing the capacity to understand what's written there. Even though I do like the visual, like, I think it's very botanical and the unthink looks really nice, but you are just able to IR, maybe a liquid. There is something here happening. Maybe I can read the end here and there all year. But depending on where what you want to achieve, this one will be like a more abstract version will be okay. And let's just go to this last one there. Let's make like a simpler way. Remember just like something more. Not too much, not too crazy. Maybe. Maybe I will try again. Something like this. Maybe actually it's really hard to actually to decide because this yep, so this would be, let's try to have like a version when you go not too crazy machine, it will go a little bit further to a point that gets a little bit too abstract. And a version where you're actually still readable. You can easily let the definition of a few letters, which I think is cool because helps us if depending on the function you want to give to our design, helps us to keep the meaning easy to understand. But sometimes like we are designing for ourselves. So don't worry too much at this point because the important thing when we are designing for ourselves is just, is just to have fun and not everything needs to be even to be ready to be like for a client. So it's important is refine and to learn something new. So yeah, so next thing we're going to do, it's just save this project as just align this. And let's just choose which one we're going to go in and take to the next lesson. I think actually, I kinda like this version here. I think it's a little bit from different from the example I've shown the beginning of a trailer of the class. But I do like it. I do think it's going to be a good example to show the techniques here we're going to use next to refine the design. So actually I think I'm going with this one. So in the next lesson, we're going to refine the vector shapes here because as you can see, when we use these tools actually creates this like not perfect distortions. And we're going to finish the design. This next part will be quite quick, I believe so. So yeah, don't go protocol now. So I'll see you in the next lesson. 6. L05 - Poster 02: Final Design: Hello everyone and welcome to the refine and detail, an infinite last lesson. So I've chosen my sketch already and I'm going just to get this art boards here. You'll be able to select these ones, leave them here just in case. And I'm going to do the same thing with this one. Because along the demo now heartburn right now. So let's let these two artboards and let's just delete them. We don't need them anymore. So next, let's just maybe worked a little bit with the scale of this element. I think it's always for now. So on one of the first things I'd like to do when I get like this kind of vectors with a lot of thoughts. And like where the proportions are not a sweet too much like vector dots and we need to clean up a little bit it. So the first thing I do is just selected and right-click. Go to simplify. I'll simplify here. You can actually reduce the name or the number of vector points you have on your illustration. As you can see, that hadn't doing like here. You can have like all of them. And then you just can reduce term until you see or until you don't feel is affecting way too much your design. Then Alto Simplify, you can just see hotkey to what he does 216. But maybe I will try to make it a little less points as possible. Great. I think this is a starting point for it. Next, I'm going to do is just going to our pipe pipe window. Sorry. Let's go to pathfinder. I was trying to say the name of the tool before I said where the tool was. So we do our design is selected. Let's just go to Shape Modes and news that unite option. So this way, what we're going to do is like this little overlaying of vector elements will be collapsed to each other, which will help us to clean up our designer little bit. So with this done, let's just find like these little holes here. Let's using the direct selection tool and delete it less just like here, there is something like there is a lot of empty spaces here. So what I'm going to do is just using our pen tool. I'm going to draw a little shape here just to cover these holes here. And something rough. You don't need to be really precise with this one because you just want to cover desert those out, select all of them. Use the Pathfinder tool to collapse them and make one shape. Let's have a look here, see something here happening as well. I'll do the same thing. Doing Simon like feeling some holes here, select them both. Collapse it and less. Just sorry, I fluctuate deleted. Let's just using the tools and just delete some points as well. Let's just delete those two. And, and yeah, let's just keep finding where we can see these little holes that need to be covered first. And then let's just do this ones. You can also delete them by hand, although I think he's few, just need to find what which one would be faster for you because you don't want to spend too much time doing it. Otherwise you're going to get probably port. And you know, sometimes you just want to do a really quick exercise. You don't want to spend too many hours doing it. So n here, I've probably going to select again and go to right-click and try to simplify it again after I've done it. Just to see how far, much more points can simplify actually helped me taking away. I think this is like in terms of little holes, there is a field them happening here. Let's just, let's just maybe create a shape here and close those ones as well. Like something not fairy. Precise for sure. They're not trying to you can go as precise as you want. I'm just trying to make it as an AT very long class. So I just want to be sure our explain every technique and before actually finish like I don't differ, actually finished like every little hole as well. So this is the way I'm doing it for the holes, creating shapes and collapsing them together using the Pathfinder tool. It's a tool I use every day for sure. Select them and perfect, just going to delete the swans. Keep the design as clean as possible. Something more like this, perfect. And when we have like this little shapes here, maybe I will just delete this as well. I don't think it's adding very much to the design tool. Let's just delete these points. So it's a combination of creating shapes and deleting shapes. Let's maybe create a new one for here. And just make sure it covers that. That's finder. Cool. So the next thing we'll just find dislike. You see like here you have least a rough edge here like is very pointy. We can just, using the direct selection tool can just select it and trying to make the vector a little bit more rounded like this. The same thing is happening here. When you select like this, you actually see this little, little circle here, like a white one. You can adjust the curvature of using the vector here, the handles. Or you can just use this thing which will, this little circle, which will run that corner for you. So now you want to try to find where, like there is risk rough edges. Maybe use a circle to smooth those edges a little bit. Like here at Dinka will need to create a shape as well. There is a lot of little holes here. So I'm just going to create a little shape here to be sure that it covers. So when we use the Pathfinder tool, it doesn't create a very complex, it doesn't add more points. And it feels, it feels all these little gaps we have now selected. Perfect day, some gaps still here. Let's just use the direct selection tool. Tried to delete them. Tonight is yeah. So yeah. So after that, Let's just find those little corners deadening deliver smooth smoothing happening there. Just try to find them. Just to try to make our design like as give us much loved as we can. So it doesn't look just like something automatically made with no much much carrying on it. So like this here is actually, it's an odd shape happening here. Maybe there is another point here. Maybe we'll just delete that point. And I'm going try to create this sort of shape like this. Let's see what's happening here. Actually, I'll, so this one discharge separated. So let's just maybe connect them. In Paraguay, let's just try to find a way to connect these two objects together. And maybe you just delete this one here. We don't need it anymore. And let's just play with the handles and try to find less delete this one as well. Try to find a nice way to have this. And, and yeah, I think it's mostly the techniques are used for this type of roof refining. It has tried to find those points that need to be rounded. And tried to make the curves a little bit. As far as you can. Delete the gaps that are like just, you know, pair not adding anything to our design so they don't need to be there. And, and reducer points by hand as well. You can just use a pen tool here. You can delete anchor points like this and just, just try and test which one is actually you can delete. Like there's a few of them there. I believe. I believe we can delete. And maybe we use this handle here to actually create that wrong shape. So the same thing here. There is some anchor points here that I believe we don't need. Maybe DS1 as well. If you just use the curvature of this handle here. And let's just make it. Let's just make the solium which rounded. Let's just delete this gap. Perfect. And you just keep doing this to keep trying to find these little bits where you can run the corners and delete a few handles if you, a few anchor points here, if you need to, like this one here, maybe we can just work with it a little bit more. Try to find a nice, nice like drop, droplet shape for it. And like something like this. So today I will leave, you know, I don't I don't not want to take your time of me doing every single thing because will take probably half an hour for me to finish this. And I don't want to take off an hour for you when you can just pause the video now and do it, and then go to the next lesson, where we're just going to add a few more elements and refine this the final layout. So yeah, I see you in the left lesson. I hope you like a enjoyed this technique using the pucker tool, I think is really cool. It's really cool to create very interesting, very tracing designers with words. So, yeah, I see you in the next lesson. And yeah. 7. L06 - Poster 02: Details & Final Layout: Hello everyone and welcome back to the last lesson of the second poster. It's always, always tricky to say because I do three posters in each class. Just I don't want to take a really short lesson where you just learn your poster. There is like so many techniques I wanted to share that It's nice to make multiple. And then I get a little bit confused when I'm starting a new lesson. Okay? So now what we want to do, I-I didn't end up finishing refining distinct because I believe don't need to. I just wanted to share with you what I've done after I finished. So this thing is we'll just create a background layer here, and I'm going to name it background. And I will just make a rectangle using the rectangle tool here. And I'm just going to make like art board size and change the color to I don't like I don't like to use full white, although I like to do like a little really light gray. Like I think he's full wide sometimes is aids like there is enough when there isn't much information, you know. I think when you use like a light gray, it's better than just a full wide QRS, full white. It's easier to notice is full white, but light gray. Mix your designs, pop a little bit more and make them a little bit more more defined, I think so. So like a light gray like this is actually what you will work. Let's scale this a little bit down actually. And I'm just going to add the little line using the line segment tool here in the top, just to create a little bit of air of a composition in the poster as well. Just not be like element in the center. Couldn't make it to. Let's just make it probably for stroke for them. Then I will just write NWA her. So it's like a way actually to almost to sign your poster, all sorts of some sorts. You can make it Noir and then you can make your name like design by, by so and so, so you feel free to write anything you want here. I'm just going to write the different ways to say no are in different languages. And maybe actually are going to use like a light font, lighter phones, maybe light. And going to duplicate this holding out. And I'm going to select it, right-click, drop it. And then I'm going just to drag and drop to the bottom here. And then yeah, I think it's, it's ready to go for print. If it's like a really liked the main visual, I think it's, it's quite interesting. I think you will not. Someone will see this and we will stop to see it better. I think it's very intrigue, visual. And yeah, I hope you liked learning techniques for this poster. And yeah, the next pulsar we're going to explore a little bit more distortion techniques and how to use some Illustrator brushes to create really nice effects as well. And that'll be it. I see you in the next poster, Lesson 2. 8. L07 - Poster 03: Starting with Design: Hello everyone and welcome to the third posture and Dulles poster of this class. So let's start again. I'm using the same resolution as before. And let us pass create. Ok. Now it just to drag and drop here. So for this poster also used a repetition technique of a word. So let's just choose a world right now. I chose silver. And it's to realize what I was trying to play with when I was designing these posters, always tried to play it contrasts in words and visuals. So I was like trying to find like, what's the best contrast for a dark background. And that will be silver. Sorry, it's not white. But anyway, you can use any order you want. So again, I'm going to use for Tura for this exercise as well. And let's cool it down using the same technique as before. We're going to just select this and holding Alt and Shift, drag it down like this, slanting again and drag it down like this. Perfect. Let's go to our distribution tools here and this, select them all. Let's go to Object and Expand. Expand the object. Perfect, Let's right-click, ungroup it. So this first part where they learned from the class before that I said this before, but just repeating the steps just to be sure you, you know, like you will not get lost or what I'm doing. So it is selected. We actually going to do some slices in this text. Let's just cohere and using our Eraser tool, like this one here, we just going to actually click twice over it, see the size of it. Maybe 10 points will be enough. Let's just press OK. We can change. If you just click over to Rick, actually change the details of the tool and the options you home wanted, angle and wrongness. And it's actually really, really mostly worked in almost every tool in Illustrator. So if you ever want to edit some, any other tool that we're using, you can just double-click and it probably not 100% sure, but probably I'll tools have options to be editable. So selecting our texts using our error is a two left just while again holding Shift. Let's just some slices like this. It actually deletes some shapes like that. And what we are doing each slicing our texts. Now I stopped holding Shift so I can go more organically on the slices. And and yeah, you want not to go too crazy because well, it can go as, you know, I'm not going to stop you two of doing too many slices. But you want to keep like a nice balance of how much, how many cuts do you have in this? You want to feel like a samurai passed by these letters, but it didn't like shredded into pieces. Let's just make sure every letter has at least three slices. To be short. Like we can play this with the design a little bit later. And let's just to it like this maybe and be like this I think, Oh, these are here is shy on slices and let's just had a few of them there. I think this is I think I'm feeling I'm feeling heavier it is. And now what we want to do is just select a few of these. Let's just actually select our text. And let's just ungroup this. And we want to do now is select a few of these shapes. If you need to ungroup it again, we probably do. So Let's just ungroup every letter. Because what we're going to do next, It's like a little pieces like this, like random ones, like here on the script again. Okay? Like this one, this one just select a few random bits of the letters, start to get one from each letter. So all of them will have like this next effect on them. Let's just do this one, maybe here, here. And VDC is a big one. I want just inverted so it was filled before. Now we just change the color to the stroke, to the fill. And let's give it like a two-point stroke maybe for actually. So yeah, if you're already looks really cool like this. I think even like, even if we just stop the class now will be, I'll be happy with this visual. But don't be, don't worry. You're not going to stop it now. And watch we're going to do next, actually is select this. And let's just change the color of the stroke here to white. And the color of the fill to white to. And because we're actually going to have a background, darker background on this, Let's create a new layer. And we're using the rectangle tool here. Let's just create a darker background. Maybe maybe something like not too dark, not full black, but a darker color. And yeah, perfect. So the next thing, this is a really cool technical going to show it to you. You know, if you have like 0 and d are no need to select all of these ones. And because I need to change the color to white, right? So instead of just letting one by one by one, like this will be here forever. So the way, the quick way to do it is just select one shape and then go here to select and select Same and Fill and Stroke like this. Let's just take the stroke away. And let's make the fill white like this. And let's see. Yeah, looks, looks really cool. Maybe I will just add a little bit more of a stroke parts here. And T, This one doesn't have any. So just because of that, I went ahead. Couple of them. Just to be sure every letter has the bits that are like stroke and bits that aren't. To make a really nice dynamic composition like this one stoned. And see actually easier to do when these like inverted like this. So let's just find this. And this is, well, oh my God will actually missed a few of them. Let's just be sure. And maybe here. This one. Not all of them. And, and yeah, I think this is, this is okay for the next lesson. So in the next lesson, what we're going to do is stored this a little bit, give it like a legal perspective and start adding detail. So yeah, I see you in the next lesson. 9. L08 - Poster 03: Design, distortin & Details: Welcome to the second lesson of this third poster. Sorry. And so here actually, I'm going to at least try to head a little bit more detail before we start with some distortions. So there are distortions we got to make on this design. Actually really simple, so you don't need to worry much. So let's just select our texts and right-click and go to group. Let's group it together. So here on the toolbar, we actually going to use a free transform tool. And what do you use free-form tool, it gives a district options. So as you can see, the C1 is a free transform which help us to do whatever we want here. And there is the perspective distort and the Free Distort software, Free Distort lets you to start every, every point like this. So there isn't like, you're not like you can do it. It's like a free distort, like a rapidly sort from, from Photoshop. But the one we're going to do is actually perspective one. What we want to head to this text to make it a little bit more dynamic, it too heavy, a little bit of a perspective on it. Maybe something like this. And then maybe, so we can actually have the sensor for like a sort of a scale happening here. And I'll just make this a little bit picker. And let's just have a little bit of free distortion then to make this perspective even more evident. And there as you're gonna see it. So this is already looking really cool. Let's just select it again. Make sure it's grouped. Yes, it is. Let's scale this a little bit like this. And maybe actually going to ungroup it just because I want to make destructively bit thicker. And using again the selection tool here, let's same Sims stroke wave, and let's make it eight. Let's make a bigger stroke. And on the stroke tab, Let's just make it inside. Something like this. Yeah, I think I think I was filling the stroke before was a little bit too thin for the Ketterle. A really nice contrast on the visual. So with this tone, Let's just select it again and just group it again, just so we move it easily if you need to. Using the line segment tool. Let's just starting drawing some lines, trying to follow our kits here. Maybe I will use a stroke, thinner, something like this. Maybe even thinner than four, maybe something like chew. Yeah. So this will be like just little details that we're going to add in our designs like this so we don't. So it feels like there's like some motion borough left from the cut. Let's try to find the places where the line cuts. And let's try to add them like this. Tried to head a little bit of detail in art and design in general. Just like if like, you know, when you like seeing like these cartoons would summarize. And when they cut something tastes like a huge line of the cat happening in the air seals like it gets it gets the hair, and it's really close, creates a really nice effect. So some of my designs is always influenced by by what I watched for sure. Unlike this is the thing like if I It's like when you see like us somewhere I feel more salting. And if you see like anybody, if they influenced or even that the game, the iPhone game where you get fruit. I can't remember the name. It's really it's really dressing game, a ticket. I played it for, for a while. Well, when was launched is equal to one of one of the first iPhone games. So back to, back to the tutorial. Yeah, just adding in between like this article creates a really nice details. Like it's and you can add as many as you want. I'm just going to stop here because I don't want to take much time to explain this. And and the next thing we're going to do is just going to our window. And let's try to find these artistic brushes from illustrator. So disparate has not been updated CSR use illustrated like 15 years ago, but they still really good. Lets us find our brush tool here. Let's use our right-click if you don't sign it. And just with the paintbrush. So what we're going to do is just select like the splatter brush here. And this white. Yeah, Unless just start heading. Let's just start having that sum as if it was like a little bit of like not bled, but something like close to it. Like just to add a bit more interesting detail in the visual, like maybe not, maybe not that distortion. And let's just try to head a little bit of maybe just, if you just select a few of these lines is actually and we go outside and slightly slanted, just add the stroke into it. And maybe like so it creates a little bit more. One more interesting line, maybe not movies like needs to overlay. Let's just try again with this. It's true. It's just added something else. Lets us see something more like this. So we just want to add more detail to our poster to make it a little bit more more interesting for the, for the viewer. Let's just add this at a little bit splatters here. Gritty realized better composition. Try to experiment with other types of pressures as well. You just feel limited just to use buttresses and stuff like that. Let's just have a look. In the brushes libraries. Maybe this one here will be a good one. Yeah, just just adding and adding layers and layers of detail. In the end of the day, Let's just like something like dislike in the potlatch. Lucky fuels like something really fast happening here. And this test is flying in your direction of some sorts like yeah, I like this one and many. I think I will stop here. Please feel free to continue exploring this standard brushes from Illustrator. They're really cool. I think they give, they take their design to another level. And I think they're really nice to play with. So they are going to stop here. On the next lesson, we're just going to make our final layouts for his posture. And that will be it federally. But yeah. I see you in the next lesson. 10. L09 - Poster 03: Final Layout: Let's finish this. Pulsar them. So this is already a lot going on. So the only thing I want to do it is to be sure of the scale of this element. I don't want to be too big. Well, I don't want to be too small as well. So it needs to take a little bit of space, but not too much. So we actually can have like some breeding areas in the poster because there is a lot of elements happening and a lot of detail. You don't want to overwhelm the viewer. We'd like a huge scale of these elements and these elements overtake everything. You need to think about how much breathing space you give to your designers. So, so to think, I'm more happy with the scale now, and I'm just going to add those little lines on the top and the bottom are going to make it like eight. As I know, hate is a good stroke line. Like this. This helps the designed to feel a little bit more. Looking like not so much as a illustration only, but like as a proper poster. And let's just had some details. I'd like to sign my posters as well. Normally sign my name or just like the date of today. So I'm gonna put like designed by MST, which means Marcus Antonius silver tiers, which is my fullName. And let's just make it white. Is it needs to. Sometimes it doesn't hold, quit illustrator and make it medium. I really like to put it like maybe on the side like this. Yeah, something like that. We have a little bit smaller Arctic is taking second little bit of space and it doesn't need to take that much pace. And here as well. And yeah, I think this is it. Yeah, I hope I hope you enjoyed this class. 11. L10 - Class Conclusion: Final thoughts: This is a classical question. So I hope you enjoyed doing this tree. These are posters, a supremacists, three different techniques that we just learned today. And three of them are really different, which is called, so don't forget, you can experiment more with these techniques and try to apply these techniques you learned in two different exercises in your day-to-day. And yeah, and if you just enjoyed this class and if you did the posters, please don't forget to share your designs with me. Gets me so thrilled when I see like a student sharing, like actually watching the class, but also doing the exercise. It's really important for me. It gets me like tomb, inspires me to continue doing this type of content as well. So if you did the class and you enjoy it, please also leave me a review. Let me know how I was still learning the ropes of online teaching. It's it's taking a time-like to me to adjust to be more comfortable doing it and everything and yeah, just let me know if you actually enjoyed this class and give me a review. 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