Creating a Hand-Drawn Type Portrait
1h 31mIntermediate2015-03-20
Authors
Von Glitschka
Designer, Illustrator
Course details
Watch a professional artist at work, Von Glitschka, as he creates a type-based portrait, or "type face," of director Alfred Hitchcock. The process combines analog and digital tools to draw the letterforms from scratch and build and colorize the artwork in its final vector form. Along the way, Von examines reference images of Hitchcock, makes sketches on the iPad in Adobe Draw, moves the artwork into Adobe Illustrator, and finishes the piece with color and shading.
Want to learn more about creating hand-drawn letterforms? Check out Von's companion course, Drawing Vector Graphics: Hand Lettering.
Want to learn more about creating hand-drawn letterforms? Check out Von's companion course, Drawing Vector Graphics: Hand Lettering.
Skills covered
Art CompositionIllustratorProjectAdobeAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
Using References and Drawing Out Your Design
- 02 - Drawing from reference
- 03 - Moving the drawing to the iPad
- 04 - Placing the drawing into Adobe Draw
Digital Inking on the iPad Using Adobe Draw
- 05 - Digitally inking non-lettering areas
- 06 - Digitally inking the initial lettering
- 07 - Digitally inking shadowed areas
- 08 - Digitally inking mid-tone areas
- 09 - Moving art from the iPad to Illustrator
Creating and Coloring the Final Vector Design
- 10 - Cleaning up vector artwork
- 11 - Exploring color
- 12 - Texturing final art