Learn design tips and tricks by creating digital illustrations from pictures

1. Introduction: Hello. My name is when your Freedom Lassie and graphics designer from Lagos, Nigeria. As a new designer, it can be pretty tough learning new skills and figuring out well designed projects to do to build your portfolio at the same time. That's why in this class are assuring you one preteen dressing with you could create projects for your portfolio. Learn new and amazing techniques. You will learn how to break down and sketch the most important possible picture on transpire sketch to add abuse. Street to your Street. What's interesting to notice that you don't have to stop at make unity peace in your portfolio? You could use it in your design work. As I have done with this picture, I turn into an illustration who stuff for a client. I also use this technique in creating icons of history car landmarks in my country. As a class progresses, I will share with you different tips and tricks. I wish I knew when I started designed, so join me in the next few Do let your digital illustration journey begins 2. Selecting and Sketching a Picture: my professor go to place to get immediate out onto the streets is Pinterest. Pinterest also serves us one of my abundances off inspiration. Whenever I receive a design brief for this class, I selected a picture of a room which has Claire are playing shapes, outline shapes. And he says that when you look at the picture committed, we see, um, square against see rectangle I can see circle. So all these brought together would really help me know how I can sketch it best. Now that I have the major choice, I cannot break down the image into basic shapes. This basic shapes will help me to sketch out and also act to ensure I sketches us proportional to the picture as possible. You can use a ruler to make the lines cleanly neighbor you see properly when you put it up in industry toe I personally use with us. My hand is not so straight. So I just depend on us. Especially when it's something that looks this geometrical e perfect eso I'm Ali. Take the shape start, I think a pretty interesting to take off the room Also only the ones I can seek. Well, if you notice you can't really see what's on that cabinet. Something like a tree. So I only take the shapes. Daikon sequin. So now very little makeup in this video, I should you have to select an Imagine Pinterest and also explain your reasoning behind why I select that image. Then I also outlined the major ships on D, then finally fielded up. As I said So in next class, I will export image and create an outline off this sketch in Illustrator So seen next video . 3. Importing and outlining a sketch: So when it comes in your street, I have my file tab books should please on board I insert the picture on the outboard. So Quicken drug Uh, here it is. So if you notice Dio picture doesn't really fits the boundaries off the outboard. So to do that, you could either come here to the airport to or we could hit shift or which I do on easily just the boundaries off the I bought two fits the image. Now that the image has been pleased nicely on our port, I'm going to reduce the capacity off the picture by percentage so we can make out the lines when we start off line. So this is a big things. 60%. 60% looks good. So after the opacity introduce, I will go to objects good down to look and hits election. It also do this. We've command too. So when I kicks on drugs, it doesn't go anyway. Dietrich Hoppe. So now I go down. Teoh the floor. Andi, I make sure the fuel color is set to noon on district color. I will go with back. So with that, I'm really told nine Miss kitsch on just like we started with sheeps in the while sketching . We're going to stop these ships now, so I have my Tunggal Andi Kings picture since I didn't take the picture. So I have married Tunggal, which I'm going to use to act as a bounding books for this. Yeah, so we can still well, critics. Okay. Okay, that's good. So, um, now I'm going security rectangle side you When I started sketching so I could always come here to hit 60 rectangle to or I could use your receipt m leaky boat so and kiss Ranger, my Fistric Tunggal could be in the game. Uh, a jury is going time This one seems more like a square then. Hey, Joe, This one on DSI How good it is to have his catch to work with. So for, um, no, I won't stray circle. They could come here on hold. Um, hold down the left key. The theme mouth and dragged outs for the ellipse. Why could he tell? Let me keep would so that I hold shift on they drop may be to go back to in selection toe, which is this section to Israel. So he'd be on bond em again for another rectangle which, if you remember, middle door soon I have the door frame and you need to hear this election tour on and begin for the second rectangle, which makes off the door. So, Andi, that's we have very different on plane, so no, no, we have the busy chips down. I'm going to start with the wind bent so to me, I don't know why, but the bed has this kind off Alex Steen going on around it. So I'm going to hit fell on my keyboard on drag it so. Well, I'm going to do next is kiss just a bit. I'm going to the next is to my beats p on a keyboard, which also stands for depend toe depend to can be found here. So then I make some outlying. Yeah. Uh huh. So I just do this I think I think was so well, I hold it old to to be able to, uh she gets to the handle, which allows me to direct the past off the pen tool so that I trace it beginning. Send sitting in the ellipse after everything with limited. So we have our bed now for the next pat. I'm going to get to the covenant. So what we're going to do here is also quite simple going to do here. Is this blessing? He depend too. Come here. I'm so a movie shift to make it 45 degrees ball. I think it's fine if we just follow the scotch. I hold shift to make sure streets. Uh, so I may not get the same angle as your the guy. So always use from Kamanzi, go to the middle of this. Andi Stocks one going to used it. So what I do now is make a copy of this so I can either do common see, come and be consciously contributing to PC. Well, what I'll do instead is ever hold option key and quick on Dravet with shift. No, I'm going to, um I take this. Could transform reflects reflect breath to copy. Okay, so now I want to introduce you to one of me. Absolutely few very tools. It's called the sheep. Feel that So it rather you usti she picks the chip your toe there or use shift n on your report, Chief M on you see, the closer changes so What you don't want to do is track it crusts. Uh, okay. So what happened was they're not intercepting. So our institution just good struck secret to intersect cities. So select put of it, he achieved em and Jenny terrorists and becomes one solid object. So absolutely love to shape your toe Took me a while to realize what an awesome told us. Alternatively, I could should consider anatomy. So let's see. Kamen said so the other way. The country's well, having this electric, you can go to the news good to pass. Find that. So my path buying up to move through the activities Pass plane, Andi desire bullion tools. So we have unites. We have miners fronts into sects on exclude. So what I want to do his Allen's unites this tour shape. So I think you night and again becomes one cheek. So, Shipbuilder Pathfinder, their absolute gems on you Have you took me well before I realized how much they were such James. So that's how you can use the computer to or department to to unite. Yes. So now that's done. Yeah. So what we want to do know is having slowly as remove this part. So what we're going to do again is selected two parts on to remove. Make sure they intercepted. So for this, I would be fetches a sheep. You that So? So she's m so now? Because I want to remove these parts. You can see how it does. Show me different aspect. Well, I will do is I will pulled the option. Key votes in PC windows PC Well, option key in back. So you see toes minus and click that part. Inflict this part And that's how you subtract items from Yes, I subtract them objects from items in industry. Pretty neato. So, no, suddenly I just realized I'm not being using my leaders. It's still pretty. I don't see new, but I don't religiously asked so much. So what I'm going to do now is and with Philip the, um, the illustration on I'm going to make sure I use my layers. Years are so important, guys, I cannot even begin to describe how explain how importantly is just trait easily as as much as possible. So I'll completes the outlying now, Andi, help you follow along. Who? So this has been a predictable video. So necessarily to be cut on. What might ing then in the video? So first off, I should you have to select and resize the boundaries off on the keyboard. Then we saw her Peterson deal of property. Yes. And how you saw it can be. I also introduced you to machine builder to on bullion from shown unites Andi. Oh, yeah. Unite. Then I should you have to use birth in use both in adding objects on bond. Finally, a stressed importance and off having your sketches separate Terrians layers essentially for your insanity. So in the next video, I'll show you helped to choose koalas on color into your sketch. So seeing the next video 4. Choosing colours to colour in: because it's a picture. We have to be very careful about coloring in. What I like to do is I take colors that are similar so I can see that there's a lot off writes very in decree of rights. I take all these colors are similar on, and I could them in one place also, I just realized that this little reflection in the mirror is not reflected in our picture. Still going to fix that oversight on my part? Buts. We can fix it. So right now to a girl in process of trial and arrow to have to get colors from the picture so I will speed up this process a bit. Sports. Um, hopefully you can. I'm still understand doing so. Essentially, what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to use any eyedropper too here. Or I could heat I to select the colors from the picture onto the mean until until my sketch . So I click here, for example, hits I on my keyboard and choline. So that's one going to be doing for the next few minutes. Very grilling process butts to tell. You needed to end up with our final sketch So trick. Speak now, guys. - Now , as you can see, we successfully colored in, um, our picture, so yeah, it looks good, but we can still make it better by I'm taking more attention to the shadows and the sheeting so this kind of illustration can be referred to us flats illustration. So I'm going to do is using pictures a guide. I will use translucent colors to depict shadows and also shading. So that picture can Dietz the illustration can more can pop more. So, um, why do is else that my I used it Dakhil on seven rapacity to like that in percent on go from there. So that's what we'll be doing next without peace competed. You can see that it's not an exact exact copy. You can use this just to test your design muscles. See worked. How you can walk around things, Andi just giggle beauty techniques like a shooting. You know of the class In my introduction video, I should do some posters on even nine conduct. I don't using this technique on. It just started because I really wanted to learn how to tribute myself. So I started, um digitally illustrates in pictures so you can. You can also do this with any picture you want to do. My next projects on this kind of technique is to design a landscape like a mountain on. But it seems like a really big project for me. Book. It's something I just really want to learn to me myself. Empty. Improve myself So we can You can do it too. Andi, you ve Emmys by what you turn out. In the end, No, we have our beautiful post are or have a illustration on. It's looking really good. And I kids, I hope you do too. So, yeah, it's really nice. So we've come to the end off another video, the class entirely because, well, the digital illustration is completed. So in this video you learned how to select colors using I'm using the eyedropper tool from a picture after a grueling process of trial and error. Andi, we also colored into the sketch. Andrea added shudders, and she didn't said illustrations to make its have this flat illustration look which made the image pop. So, um, that's it for this video. And in the next class, I'll be introducing you to your class projects. See, in the next few do 5. Class project and Thank you: Congratulations on completing this class. Now what you're going to do for your class projects would be to select the picture, sketch the picture, illustrate picture Onda, upload one year illustration in Jay Peak, Vermont, and to the, um, original picture. So that means you're putting your digital illustration in J bag on. And I would also like to see the original picture like where you go, your inspiration from. So that's it, Guys, I can't wait to see what cool and fun illustrations you come up with. Very, very, very, very big things for taking this course. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed. Crazy, innit? I'm looking forward to seeing your great projects. Also, if you enjoyed this class help but accidents do so by reviewing would appreciate your feedback very much. See you in class.