Illustrator: Digitizing and Refining Sketches

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Free Online Course: Illustrator: Digitizing and Refining Sketches provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Illustrator: Digitizing and Refining Sketches is taught by Von Glitschka.

Overview
  • Von Glitschka develops an illustration based on iconic Native American imagery, drawing a rough sketch and transforming it into crisp vector artwork with Adobe Illustrator.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    1. From Concept to Sketch
    • Developing initial mockups and combining them into a rough composite
    • Taking the rough composite to a refined sketch
    • Getting started on the refined sketch
    • Sketching downy feathers in the tribal style
    • Determining the profiles of additional feathers
    • Finalizing the sketch for Illustrator
    2. From Drawing to Vectors
    • Importing your sketch
    • Creating the face in vectors
    • Drawing the side feathers in vectors
    • Sketching in the headband
    • Creating the quill in vectors
    • Drawing the ponytail
    • Creating the down in vectors
    • Drawing feathers
    • Continuing to draw the feathers
    • Uniting vector shapes
    • Colorizing the vector image