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Turn Your Favorite Memories into Meaningful Art on Adobe Illustrator

teacher avatar Winta Assefa, Architect & Visual Communicator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:21

    • 2.

      Class Project

      1:48

    • 3.

      A Trip Down Memory Lane

      2:21

    • 4.

      Prepare Your References

      1:38

    • 5.

      Create A Color Palette

      2:23

    • 6.

      Capture The Setting

      4:13

    • 7.

      Draw Your Subject(s)

      4:28

    • 8.

      Final Touchups

      2:30

    • 9.

      Playing With Colors

      5:50

    • 10.

      Turn Your Artwork Into A Gift

      6:05

    • 11.

      Finding More Inspiration

      2:16

    • 12.

      Final Thoughts

      2:09

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About This Class

Has an old perfume or photograph from a different era in your life ever pulled you back to a long-lost memory? A now-distant age?


Did that sensory stimulus bring the feeling you had at that moment and the faces of the people you were close to then and make you wonder how you'd forgotten about it all this time? Now, do you want to travel back in time and recapture one special memory in the form of an art piece?
Then this class is for you.

What we're going after here isn't technical mastery—we're trying to capture a time and a place (and the feeling from a bygone era.

So, together, we'll be gathering sensory stimuli that can inspire our art piece. The stimulus can be a perfume you used in high school, polaroid photos or candy you loved as a kid—anything that can take you back to a certain age and draw from that perspective. (I'll be cracking open my scented diary from middle school.)

After that, we'll select the place we want to time travel to and gather our references.
Once we scan everything and have it on our software, we'll choose colors that best convey the mood we're going for. We'll start our art with blobs of color, experiment with placement, and refine our work to the level of detail we're happy with.

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Credits:

1. Naseef House picture from: Grady Travels - Travel Addict (@gradytravels on Facebook). It was posted on Facebook on 15.11.21. Link to photo: https://www.facebook.com/gradytravels/photos/pcb.176308994711308/176308811377993/?type=3&theater 

2. Julieta Ulanovsky is the creator of the sublime Monserrat font that you see throughout this class. You can find Julieta's work & her Instagram handle through these links.

3. Thank you Smitesh Mistry, Tom Froese, Debbie Millman and Amandine Thomas for being generous with your own classes, and letting me include your videos in my bonus lesson here. 

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Winta Assefa

Architect & Visual Communicator

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I'm a Saudi-born, Ethiopian-based architect, writer and storyteller.

Since 2013. I've been mainly known for my short, character-driven sand animation videos. Here on Skillshare, I primarily show how I create communicative drawings and evocative short videos without the use of any fancy devices or software.

You can also find my work on YouTube, Medium, Instagram and Tiktok. 

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Level: Intermediate

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1. Introduction: It hasn't old perfume or a photograph just grabbed you back to a memory that you have long lost and forgotten. And you wondered, how did I forget this type that, that sensory stimulus, whatever that was bringing you back the faces of the people that you are close to back then in the feeling you had at that age. Now, do you want to travel back in time and recapture the essence of that memory in somehow immortalize it in the form of an art piece. Then this class is probably for you. Hi, my name is Winter sofa. I am in, in fact, storyteller, Illustrator. And for this class we'll be making this art on Adobe Illustrator. But you can follow along with anything you're comfortable with, length, Photoshop, or Procreate. Now you don't have to be an expert Illustrator to follow along with this class. What we're going for is not technical mastery. We're trying to capture a time and a place from a bygone era. So together we'll be gathering sensory stimuli that can inspire you for your artwork. This can take the form of an old perfume bottle that you used to use back in high-school, or candy that used to love as a kid, or maybe even Polaroid photos that he might have taken back in the day. Now this can be anything that can take you back to that age and let you draw from that perspective. That's what we're going for. In my case, I'm going to be cracking open my middle school journal. This is a centered diary, so it's really jogs my memory and helps me remember the feelings that I had as a middle school kid back in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. And that's the perspective I will be drawing on. Once we gather everything we need to go back in time and look from that perspective. Then we're going to be putting all our references on computer and starting our sketch from there. Again, as I said, I won't be focusing on technical aspects a lot, but I'll be giving you tips on how to use Adobe Illustrator along the way that you can use in later projects. And we're going to be working with colors and themes just to capture the mood that we're going for now when we're done with our work and we refine it to the level that we want. And we experimented different iterations of the same artwork. We're going to be exporting it in high-quality so that we can't either store it for ourselves or even turn it into gifts that we can give away to our friends or loved ones that we probably shared these memories with. I encourage you to come along on this class and I hope it's a lovely trip down memory lane. 2. Class Project: Hello. In this lesson I'll be telling you what materials you might need for this artwork. It's going to vary greatly depending on what memory you're trying to capture and what tools should be using. I'll be using my middle school diary, Adobe Illustrator, a photograph from within their phone to capture the photograph, and that's it. At this stage, you can grab anything else that you think could help you jog your memory. It can be an old perfume artifacts that you have had locked away, dollar, anything that will help you remember something that you want to capture. For our class project, we are going to be making an illustration using all of these references and sensory stimuli that we gather. In the next lesson, we'll be sorting through our memories and trying to capture one that we will be turning into our artwork for your class project, I hope you can upload the final illustration that you draw that's inspired by their sensory stimuli that you've gathered. But if you don't get there, it's okay to share a color palette that you came up with inspired by the memory that you wanted to revisit or the items that would inspire an illustration. So this could be a diary page or items that used to love as a kid. So in my case, I just shared my project here. This is where you would upload your project. You can see mine right here. Yours would sit right here. You can edit this at anytime, so feel free to update it as you go and maybe write a little description of what your illustration is about. Or if you're going to share a diary page or a photograph, then you can just include the memory with the year and maybe the group of people that you're with. So I hope that clarifies the class project and I hope to see what you come up with. 3. A Trip Down Memory Lane: Hello, welcome to this lesson. For this exercise, I want you to sit down and allow yourself to go back and reflect on certain memories, certain places that you would like to revisit, not included a PDF in the resources tab that you can print out and start writing down the answers to. This will help guide you to choose differences that you want to go for n, to choose the perspective that you want to draw from 20, be select that memory. I wanted to answer a few questions. What is the mood you want to capture in your art? Isn't nostalgia, sadness, pain, joy, or any other emotion? Are you in contact with any of the pupil? You may share that memory with Kenny, ask them questions, or get details you may want to use and exercise. This may be a cool way to reconnect with old friends. No, no, no. This is the diary that I'm going to be opening. Just opening. It brings back so many memories. The smell. You guys who did this in middle school, having different colored pages, a different colored pens. I was one of those groups. This might be quite an emotional process because you may not go for a happy time. Or sometimes you feel nostalgic about this might bring back some pain and regret. And this may even be aware of processing your feelings. For this class. I'll be picking a photo that my friends and I had taken in Pizza Hut back in Jetta. This was at on 2009 and we had gone to an a safe house, which is one of the most famous heritage sites in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It's a very old house, very well-made. So I'll be trying to capture the wonder of going there. So this is the memory that the photo there and be going for the smell. The smell just brings me back to middle school. I am a 13-year-old girl hanging out with her friends. Again, this is amazing. I want you to go through these questions and based on your answers, pick the memory that you want to go for. Find reference photos that you want to use. And in the next lesson we're going to be transferring all of these references to our software and get on our artwork. 4. Prepare Your References: Hi, In this lesson we are going to be scanning or taking photographs of our references and transferring them to our computer where we can put them on our software and start our artwork. If you're going to be using your phone to take pictures, make sure that your phone lies horizontally over the photograph. That you take a few pictures so that you can select which one you like most when you transfer it on your computer. Right now, I'm going to be moving my reference photos to Adobe Illustrator. One thing I like to do before I move my reference photos is create two separate layers. One where I'm gonna keep a photo of my subjects. In this case it's my friends. And one where I'll have the background image. In this case it's in a safe house. So I'm going to have the photo of my friends above the photo of messy house. The blue layer would be above the red layer. Now I'm going to be moving first photo. I embedded and I resize it so it fits the art board and it's comfortable for me to play around with. Once I'm done with this, I'm going to move on to the next layer, press on that, and move a photo of a safe house where I'm gonna do the same thing, embedded, resize it, and just have it prepared on the next art board so that I can move on to the next lesson. Now, the best thing about this is I can just switch on and off lock and unlock layers so I can play with each photo individually. And in the next lesson we're gonna be picking a color palette and we'll get onto our artwork. 5. Create A Color Palette: Now to one of my favorite parts of creating an artwork which was making the color palettes. In my case, I want to go for something very realistic and close to the reference photos I'm going for. So browns and greens would be good. But make a rectangle and press Alt and copy it and then Control D to repeat the action of copying several times. Now it'd be using the eyedropper tool to pick colors from the photograph itself. Just steal colors from there and color every box that I have on this list until I have come up with a combination that I like. I'm going to be picking a lighter color from within the building, Greene's of the trees. And I'm going to be copying the boxes adjacent to them to where they are so that I can play with different color combinations. Now, this can be automatically generated or you can go and hand pick colors from the color tab. Now, I like to go crazy at this stage. I'd like to open this part and just **** all the different color combinations that I can use because you never know until you see them next to each other. You can't tell which ones would match. I like some of these yellows. I like the light yellow and though more brownish color. And I'm just rearranging it so that it looks somehow like a coherent color palette of sorts like you can, as you can see, I'm just feeling the colors at this point. I'm not really following any color theory or anything. I just want something that feels old school, but also kind of youthful. And so I pick a blue from the sky in the photograph and a light grayish color. Once I'm happy with the colors, I put it on a separate outward and export it so that I can have this color palette ready for my future artwork and for any other reference that I need in the future. Once I'm done with this stage, I can move on to making the artwork better, basic shapes that would be color blocked. And I'd love to see you in the next lesson. 6. Capture The Setting: Okay, Now that we have a color palette ready, we can start capturing the environment that we want to have. So I'm going to start dragging my color palette. I think I'd be comfortable. And I'm just gonna be moving my base photo or the photo of a safe house here. I'm gonna be locking the layer where it's just my friends, the photo of my friends so that I'll only be operating on an a safe house layer, the one with the red line. Now I'm going to be picking a brush. I want to see which talk I'd be most comfortable with. Pick up a color using the eyedropper rule. Just start drawing. I'm just approximating floors at this point. So I just wanted to show the levels of this house. Now I'm just outlining the basic shape of the house is the Tango. And I'm going to start filling in the details. I'm adding a lamppost and trying to straighten out the lines just a little bit. There's this brown square thing on the side on the top right corner. Very big brown blob or rectangle in the middle. I'm just trying to capture those in the simplest shapes or forms that I can. So I'm going to be making a window, a little window like this, and I'll just be copying it, duplicating it. I use the alt key to drag them. To copy them basically controlled. You would repeat the action too. I'm doing the same thing with the little circles on the top. Just want to, people who see this illustration to be like, Okay, that's messy house. If they see this picture, they'd be like people who known as IV house. So I'm just adding the very basic, very, very simple outlines. I don't want to go too much into detail. I still want to keep this minimalist look. Now that I've done this, I want to start coloring. Now. I'm going to start with major color blocking. Just made a rectangle. And I'll be sending this to pack. Once I've done that, it's behind the windows and I'm going to repeat that action. I'll do the same thing to the door, but since it's receding inwards, I want to show that through coloring it a darker color. And I'll just start coloring. This guy is the very big blue blob that I have in the color palette. So I want this to be very fun and whimsical. So I'm just, I don't want to clean it up too much. I just made a huge scribble use to represent the sky. And I'll have something similar for the groan, I'm gonna be picking a yellow from the color palette. The darker one is in the back showing the receding point and then the lighter yellow would be in front. So once I have done this, I'm just going to be readjusting positions just a little bit. I will see that in a safe house is on a platform. So I went to represent that by adding another layer. So it's not just these two floors or layers. I'm gonna be adding steps and the spots where I'd have the plants. Now, I'm going to be starting something really fun for me actually. I'll just be drawing the tree that you see in the photo. So I'm drawing this very jagged trunk. I want it to look organic and just scribbling all over represent plots. I got this scribbling technique from architecture school. It's just, you just want to capture the idea of what you want to draw. You don't want to really spend time on showing a lot of detail or too much details or being really, really accurate. I'm just moving it on art board just to see how it looks overall with plenty of negative space all around it. And I'll be saving a copy. So I have this in my pocket. And so this is, this is it for now. For now, this is the main bones of this illustration. Now once I have this background, I'm gonna be focusing on rolling a subject's next. See you in the next lesson. 7. Draw Your Subject(s): In this lesson, we're going to be drawing the subject or subjects that you want to capture within a memory that you want to illustrate. I have a picture of me and my friends that we took in Pizza Hut. We went to pizza at right after we visited in the safe house. I'm going to be putting that picture in front of the illustration of the safe house and reducing capacity, sizing it down just to see where we would fit. This didn't have to have happen, but I just want to place us right in front of Displace. I'm gonna be drawing some basic shapes, circles, blobs just to represent our faces, our hands, our hair. So it's just really, really basic shapes or a bias. I just want to approximate the shapes. I don't want anything accurate. I just want to show that we were here and this is where we would've been and this is how we would've been next to each other. So using the brush tool and I'm going to just be approximated where our scarf would be, where our hands would be on top of each other. Where the flares from our bias, where that would be connected. And it's just, I only want to capture the very basics. I feel like the moment you start overthinking this, try to step away and come back. And if you feel like the basic shapes sorted, capturing the subject that you're trying to draw. You've done enough, you've done your job here. I'm just drawing the legs. Just very basic trapezoids or rectangle shapes and little circles to represent the feet. Nothing more than that. I just want to capture all of this before I fill in the details because I want to still be able to see the picture in the background. So now I remove the picture and I want to reduce the opacity, see how we would look. Now I wanted to use the color palette that we've already made so that I can color or fill in the shapes that have made. I select all of these shapes and I want to see that we have a similar look. So I'm going to go for the yellow that already have in my color palette. And I'm just going to see how it feels that are phases, is it representative? Our skin tones are slightly different, so I'm gonna be playing around with that a bit, but I'm not going to be focusing on that right now. So for the bias epic darker brown that I already have within my color palette, I try not to leave that color palette so that I have a more consistent minimalists, simplistic look. And I just color the scarves, just simple block colors. They don't have to look like the color in the picture. Just want to show that it looks like even vaguely like the picture that I'm trying to capture. Again, this isn't really about accuracy. It's about trying to capture the place and your position with your friends and where you were within that place. So it's just very cartoonish, childlike. And that's the look that I'm going for. Now. I'm just playing with the hairstyles a little bit. My friends had really straight hair with long side swept bangs, and I had more of my natural hair look in this photograph. So I'm going to try to capture that was more full and I had tied up in a bun. And again, I keep being tempted to draw more accurately, but I'm fighting those temptations just to capture the idea of what those friends looked like, they wouldn't be recognizable from this illustration or from the picture. But in my head, this is the cartoon like image that I had of them. If I want to turn them into a cartoon, this is what they would look like. I just isolate them separately with the lamppost, just a sharp position there. And I want to have that alone so that I can play around with it in different ways. So I isolate them alone, isolate the safe house illustration alone, and I export it so that they can move on to the next step. 8. Final Touchups: We're nearing the end would final touch ups. And this is where I get to add these little details that add more coherence to the illustration. In my case, I'm gonna be using the brush to add shadows. I'm gonna be using little strokes and blobs, irregular shapes in black. Just to add a little shadow effects, they don't have to be very accurate, but I just wanted to give an approximation of what it would be like for characters that are standing right there. So I'd add it to the pole that's next to them just to showcase the sun was from above them from this angle. So they're anchored to that location. They can't just slide away any moment. I didn't just slap them on Dennis, if house illustration, I think little details like this head make the whole illustration more coherent. And like they were actually there. I'm not looking for accuracy again, I'm just adding these little details and reducing the opacity of the black. So it's not really overwhelming. It doesn't look really in your face and just grabs too much attention. But I think overall it's going to help anchor these characters to the location that I've placed them in. Like I said, this didn't really happen. We probably didn't understand in that exact location. But this is the gist of the memory memories that I had on that special field trip. They, now it'd be zooming out just to see how the illustration looks in the context of everything else. And I'm gonna be making these tiny adjustments to the shadow just to see what looks better. I try not to overdo this step because I tend to take forever in the final touch ups. So I just wanted to make it look like the anchors to the place, but I don't want to add too much or I don't want to make it look too overwhelming. It just wanted to see the shadow near the pole looks good and the shadow next to us looks fine, not accurate, particularly just serving its purpose, which is really making it look like we're standing there. Once I'm happy with that, I am going to just select all of us, the characters in this illustration. And I'm gonna be isolating us that. I move on to the next step. 9. Playing With Colors: Now we can stop at this point, but it really won't play with color. So I will leave the layer where I have my subjects on. I'm going to select it. And I just want to start seeing what they would look like against different colors and different themed backgrounds. Here I have a simple drawing of just something that would simulate a blue sky in Greengrass, fairly stereotypical just Disney movie or cartoon situation. And I have the characters, my subjects standing in front of it with the, along with the shadows. And I would just make these basic fixes to what I did to these backgrounds. And some of them, I have these little taglines like the year it was 2009 and the location was Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I just have this written thing beside it and I have this my friends in Jetta version two. And it's, again, this is just like sentimental words that I added in here. I might leave without towards the end, I might just go for these backgrounds. If I feel overwhelmed by the safe house, I just wanted to see what the subjects would look like against different layouts. It's completely optional. You can opt out of this stage. I'm just putting it in front of the background, seeing what the subjects would look like. Do they need to be bigger, slightly smaller? Does the shadow needs adjustment? Clearly, my signature and everything meets the move. Once I'm done with that, I will copy my art board and I also want to try another background where I just take the lamppost. I'm going to enable that layer. I will pick up my lamp posts from this house situation along with the floor, and I'll copy it down to where I only have the subject's me and my friends. I'm going to just position it in a place that I think would kind of simulate the placement shouldn't feel too off. And I would've just the art board to just frame this whole setup. Well, I want it to be more landscape themed instead of the more square-shaped that a hat. Now just like before, just a little bit. And I just wanted to reduce the opacity of these colors. Again, this is the same thing, except I added the color palette because I love having artwork decide color palette and I will just save this version. And this is just different iterations of the same artwork. I just want to have expanded and see what else it can make. Now, what we're going to have fun. I clicked Edit and I'm going to re-color artwork. This is where I get to do one of my favorite things on Illustrator, which is just with a few clicks. You see on the side where we have the basic colors, we have the grayscale. You can adjust the entire artboard color scheme. So just click Control a to select the whole art board, or you can select one art board. And you can see what this looks like with the green and blue looks like. I'm gonna save this version because I, I don't hate it. So my favorite color combination, but I want to have the option later on. I'll just save it in one form and I'm going to start playing with other colors. And we'll see where that goes. Now again, I'm going to go back and I'm going to click on Edit, Edit, Colors, Recolor Artwork. And I'll have all of these different options. You see we have the greens with the red. It looks kind of like a villain character from a cartoon situation. I would just want to see what it looks like. Overall, it looks diabolical. It's hurting my way. I'm just going to go back to the original color and going to edit the colors. Once again, I click on Recolor Artwork and have these calm colors again, browns, blues, greens. I can pick any of these. I'm going to pick my complimentary, second complimentary option. I'll see what that's doing to my artwork. It's slightly different. The blue is commerce, saturation is lower, it's different. The browns, the yellows have become more monochromatic. Inoue. I'm gonna save this version too because I think I'm gonna go back and check it up. I like it. I'm going to just write down something to remember it by. I'll save this. It's a huge file analysis gonna take time. I'm going to do this again few, few more times. I am. I love this color. The blue, the more purple. The purple and brown tend to go well with each other. So I wanted to see how that would look like. This is more of a cyclic green with a brown. This is more of a monochromatic in a way. Very boring, very dull. But okay, this is, this is weird to me. I don't really, I'm not feeling it. But you see all of these different colors on the left became a few colors on the right. It's going towards a more monochromatic theme. And I think I want to have these options. I think this is enough colors for one artwork. I have played with colors and not really a big fan off and colors that I've frankly really like, probably more than the original. So we're gonna be moving on to the next lesson. I hope you guys like the colors he came up with. 10. Turn Your Artwork Into A Gift: Now that the artwork is finished, I just wanted to show you how I can turn it into prints that I can give away all my friends and loved ones more keep for myself instead of just having it in soft copy. But first I'm going to go through my different colors real quick. Now this artwork has turned into several different versions of itself just by changing the color scheme. I have this monochrome right here in this brown that I don't really likes. I'll delete it. And I'm just filtering through the different exports that I made earlier so that I can only keep the ones that I'm okay with. So the browns here look at both washed out. I don't really like how they are turning out. Exhibit dull. The blacks just completely, in my opinion, ruined the artwork style. It doesn't really look joyful or childlike in any way. So I don't think I'm gonna be going 40s and the green and orange is horrid. I really don't like this one. This nope. The red one is unknown. This isn't just diabolical. This is this looks offensive somehow. This color scheme just no, I don't think I'm gonna have this on any prints on any hypothetical surface. Actually, like this one. This one is a bit washed out a bit, but yeah, the colors are a lot more pleasing. They go well together. It feels nostalgic and I don't know, I kinda like the sublime in a way. We're back to the reds. Kind of terrifying. I kind of like this, especially in the isolated form. I'm not really feeling the writing beside the different artworks, but I'm glad I tried that out. About not judging too early is you can have all of these different options later on to judge from this is orders not artwork with the color scheme that I originally picked. And yeah, kinda like how they're turning out. This isn't the safe house. Know that I have Society six open. I paid my dollar to have a page here as an artist, just so I can have a place where I can have my prints uploaded. So anyone can open this and find my prints. And I can also buy it myself once I see how they look on different surfaces. So I click Upload Artwork, go through my files. I've already sifted through the ones that I liked. So I'm just gonna pick the ones that I really want first. So my original artwork, that's gonna be my featured image. And then I'm gonna be going through the different fires and seeing other variations that I can play with. So it's not just the same copies of the same colors. I'm going back and forth uploading new files. I can drag it too. But I prefer to go through the fives I just labeled at the childhood Arabia. And I am going to go through this one more time. See if there was one more that I want a few more pictures that I like. I select the featured image and I keep changing my mind, but I, I think I'm going to go for the simple background one. The one without the CIF has to be my feature image. I'm seeing if there's one last picture I can have and now I think I'm done. Yeah, I'm pretty much done. I can adjust to just the color scheme too, just so I can have a phone case cover dimension. And I can see how to look on various products. Just going to select the color scheme, one that I just edited. And I'll be ready to go. That's it. On some done, I click Select and I go through my agreement. And now look at this magic. This is how it would look like on all of these different surfaces. Pillow cases, mugs, tables, stools, and there are places where it's not applicable. Coasters, towers, acrylic phone case covers. Do you see how nice that phone case cover looks? Different bags, different types of bags, t-shirts. So perhaps if I had a PNG, it would have looked PNG file where you don't have the white solid background? It probably would've looked nicer on the t-shirts. But yeah. Do it for the next time. It's going to call the categories and add tags so it's more searchable. This isn't just gonna be something I keep from myself. Once I've gone through these different tags, I'm going to see check what I need to check. Just navigate the site a little more and save it. Now I have this and I can check how much percentage or the sea and estimate of how much money I'd be able to make from each art piece or each print. This would give me a good idea if I would be buying my own prints, this would give me a good idea of how much each one would cost and how, what's the percentage Society's website is gonna take from my prints. Now you can try any other print on demand website, but I really like the simplicity within society six. So this is it for this lesson. See you next time. 11. Finding More Inspiration: This is an extra lesson in this one, I just wanted to share some of the classes here on Skillshare that are really, really helpful to me and showing me what else I can do with graphic design illustration. So tell if these classes include. The first Skillshare class I recommend is the art of the story by Debbie middleman, where she inspires you to tell a visual story by first showing you a diverse selection of artwork that she has collected over many, many years. Her passion for design and art really shines through throughout this class and I highly recommend it. I also highly recommend her book How to think like a great graphic designer to anyone who wants to be a designer creative of any sorts. She's generally inquisitive, interviews people across the design discipline and asks amazing questions because she knows what it's like to be a designer herself. Another class I recommend is I'm a pharmacist, Yes, you can draw where she shares a bunch of exercises that can help you loosen up and really have fun with discovering what you're storing style is. And you can experiment with different media. She's not really specific about what kind of medium you need to use to draw in my personal favorite mapping life, where she manages to capture her emotions and tell a story through a map. I'm obsessed with maps. So this was a really fun project for me to do. Even went back to my fourth-grade self and went through the different phases. I went to map that out with another class. I highly recommend storm forces sweet spot, where it shows you how to make lovely little illustrations with big impact. Now who shows you how to go from the sketch process all the way to the final product. And these little illustrations can be used in publications of various kinds. Finally, I want to show Smith issues graphic design for beginners, where he teaches absolute beginners have to follow exercises that can show you the basics of Adobe Illustrator and help you make lovely posters. And even though I've been using Adobe Illustrator for years, this class was a really good refresher for me. That was really fun for me. And I hope that you guys can take some value from these different lessons that I've shared with you. And just explore your art style and your feelings who aren't. See you in the final lesson. 12. Final Thoughts: You've made it and we are at the end of the line. I hope you had just as much fun revisiting your memories as I did. Now, whatever state you stopped out whether you've completed the illustration or probably stopped at the place where you check out these different stimuli or make a color palette. I hope that you can share your project with us in the project section, maybe you can write a short paragraph where he talked about the location and the time, the year where this memory is from. And we can all visits these memories with each other. If you want to share it with your friends even better, I would love for this to be a point of connection for you, maybe a point for you to revisit your relationship and talk about times that have passed and the memories you've shared together. In my case, I reconnected with an old friend of mine that I knew in Saudi Arabia. Now she's in Pakistan, she's married, has a kid, and we were bonding over this memory. The picture that I sent to her, which we took in that field trip day. We took this big bus, all of us girls, some of them were my sister's classmates, my classmates, girls from other grades. And it was just this really fun trip to a historical site that we were like, oh my, this house is haunted and we made up this entire time dish scenario where we were trying to make it even more exciting than it really is. This picture doesn't really capture everything that we experienced that they, but it's just a snapshot of this memory that we all shared. I hope that this project or these prompts that I shared with you would be a point off the reconnection with some of your friends or loved ones that you've probably not as close as you were with. Now you can follow me here on Skillshare checkout, the class that I've got on sand animation. This includes some of the basics of what it is like to draw with sand. And there are other products that I'm really excited to be sharing with you soon. You can also check out my work on Instagram, on YouTube and say hi, drop a comment somewhere. Let me know that you've come from here. Thank you for joining me here. See you when I see you.