Commercial Illustration: Creating a City Postcard with Gouache and Photoshop

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Free Online Course: Commercial Illustration: Creating a City Postcard with Gouache and Photoshop provided by Skillshare is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for Less than 1 hour of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Commercial Illustration: Creating a City Postcard with Gouache and Photoshop is taught by Anna Sokolova.

Overview
  • In this class, I'll take you through my step-by-step process to create a commercial illustration for a Berlin postcard.

    We’ll combine two worlds of physical and digital to create a soulful authentic product, like using traditional gouache paint to add an artistic feel to our work. The technique combines hand-drawn textures with Photoshop resulting in a wonderful print-ready postcard that can be used as merchandise or as a gift.

    By the end of this class, you’ll learn some important principles of commercial illustration and incorporate them in your own work. Both advanced and beginner creatives can benefit from this class!

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Materials
    • Idea and principles
    • Painting elements
    • Scanning and working with outlines
    • Coloring
    • Adding textures
    • Setting the type and file for print
    • Creating your own artwork
    • Final thoughts