If you are a graphic designer looking to learn a unique illustration style, you are in for the ride of your life! Hold on ladies and germs we got ASCII art.

This class teaches graphic designers how to create custom ASCII art from a photograph. This unique illustration style is a great technique for achieving a retro-futuristic aesthetic and creating something that is sure to turn heads.Â

By the end of this class, you will have made a custom ASCII art portrait and know how to illustrate anything you can possibly imagine in the ASCII art style.Â

Skills you will learn

Working with Monospaced typefaces
Convert portraits to ASCII art in adobe illustrator
Incorporate ASCII art into a composition

Resources

Illustrator Design file.Â This is the file that I will use to create my work of ASCII art. You can dig around and see what I did, get inspired, and possibly discover somethingÂ new.
That That ASCIIÂ Typeface This is a typeface that I designed specifically for making ASCII art. It is the typeface I use in the video and I want to give it to you for free!
Guide to Making ASCII Art E-book. This covers everything we go over in class but in an E-book form. It also has additional resources. I normally sell this but we are friends, and I don't sell stuff to my friends. So I am giving it to you for free.Â

About Harbor

Harbor, your instructor, is a graphic designer passionate about typography and typeface design, Harbor is working as a graphic designer focusing on branding and is a professor teaching graphic design at Dixie State UniversityÂ as well asÂ pursuing a masters degree at SVA in New York City.

Other classes taught by Harbor

https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Building-a-Custom-Typeface-With-Just-Enough-Personality/1786147653

Link to Harborâs Type Foundry That That Type

https://www.thatthattype.com/

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