Digital Tutors - Creating Narrative Illustrations in Illustrator

Illustrator is a powerful vector graphics program that many artists believe is just for logos. We're here to tell you this just isn?t the case. As we?ll see in this training, we can create some really great, powerful illustrations all right inside of Illustrator.

While working through this illustration, we will learn several different methods for quickly creating a variety of custom shapes including the pen tool, the pencil tool and the blob brush. We?ll learn how we can utilize Photoshop?s brush engine to create shapes for noise or structure that we can use in Illustrator. We will also learn how we can include things like gradients, transparency and blend modes in our illustrations.

After completing this Illustrator tutorial, you should have a strong understanding of the tools and techniques as well as my thought process in creating a strong narrative illustration all inside Adobe Illustrator.?

Creating Narrative Illustrations in Illustrator contents:

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Reviewing the composition and setting up the Illustrator file

3. Creating structural shapes in Photoshop

4. Blocking in the foreground shapes

5. Blocking in the mid-ground shapes

6. Blocking in the background shapes

7. Drawing trunk detail for the foreground trees

8. Adding color to the bark detail for the foreground trees

9. Creating the base foliage for our trees

10. Breaking up the mountains in the background

11. Building the river using a gradient mesh

12. Creating color variation in the waterfall

13. Creating water spray for the waterfall

14. Blending the background with texture shapes

15. Adding mid-ground detail

16. Adding a silhouetted raft

17. Adding in final details