Editorial Illustration Tutorial: From Drawing to Photoshop
Editorial Illustration Tutorial: From Drawing to Photoshop
Learn how to transform a written article into a digital illustration with tips on drawing, color use, and texture.
What are the requirements?
- Paper or sketchbook
- Pencils, pens
- Gouache, acrylic, or watercolor paints (optional)
- Light box (or window)
- Scanner (or camera, if unavailable)
- Adobe Photoshop (free trial available online!)
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 35 lectures and 2.5 hours of content!
- Understand what editorial illustration is
- Learn about the history of editorial illustration
- Know the different types and specs of editorial illustration
- Get inspired by examples from illustrator trail blazers
- Navigate the process of creating an editorial illustration
- Find your artistic style
- Analyze a written article for illustrating
- Collect visual references
- Follow a design brief
- Overcome the blank page
- Start sketching
- Implement drawing tips and techniques
- Know what to send to an art director
- Incorporate feedback into your revisions
- Finalize your drawing
- Work with line
- Create value and color studies
- Learn color theory and how to work with color digitally
- Harmonize a color palette
- Try out new digital painting techniques in Photoshop
- Paint textures to import into Photoshop
- Hand-draw typography to import into Photoshop
- Finalize your illustration
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