'Yes, I'm a Designer' is a YouTube channel dedicated to tutorials for artists and graphic designers. The video provides an introductory look into making illustrations in the design application, Adobe Illustrator. He gives the user a simple explanation of copying other works to help them practice. He describes how simple shapes and shadows can help create a good illustration. The first tool presented is the pen and how to create curvatures to the lines placed. His example is an outline of a flame. He then shows the feature for rounding corners of shapes make with the lines. He uses the shape of a star and shows right-click features that are included to edit the corner's radius, width, and curvature. By the middle of the video, he has explained how to fill in colors and how to add different variations of color around illustrations to give them depth. At the end, he uses much more advanced skills for graphic designers such as working with fonts and such.
The first video was helpful in giving me a small rundown on what possibilities can be done through the Illustrator application. Whereas, Youtube channel 'Andy Tells Things,' gives a quick guide to all the tools provided in Adobe Illustrator along with their keyboard shortcut codes. The guide is more of technical use for all of them instead of creativity, yet still helpful for beginners. He encourages in the video for everyone to take time out their day to learn these tools at their own pace and only use his videos to get commonground on what Adobe Illustrator has to offer.
Paola Kassa is a Graphic Design YouTuber who specializes in Adobe Illustrator for her career. She opens the video with an explanation for why she has switched from Adobe Photoshop to Adobe Illustrator. She answers concerns for those who are starting out on Illustrator. While she shows the process of the application, she explains on the side how Illustrator's versatility has helped improve her design skills. She mentions how the application invites the user to practice their skills in diverse forms.
Below is the portfolio including all the work done for my FMX 210 class. It was based on a minimalist aspect that I love. Minimalistic with a magazine touch. The cover photo is a personal photo of a hotel in Puerto Rico called 'El Convento.' The other photos included were candid pictures taken of me during class. Putting this portfolio together was easy and incredible to piece one by one and describe my work over the semester. Such an incredible experience and InDesign was, perhaps, one of my favorite programs during the whole class. Incredibly innovative and easy to work with.
My business cards were inspired by cards I'd happily give to people I meet by chance in the street. It touches on a lot of my personality, especially the Monet one.
Photoshop from BW to Analogous Using a casual picture from work seemed like a simple image to work with. This project was more straightforward than with previous programs and quite fun after figuring out Photoshop. This is the original selfie I started working from. I wanted to just work on my main features. Focusing on the face, hair, shirt, and jacket. Turning the image to grayscale was the first step before choosing my colors on Adobe Colors. This was my favorite to work with. I used the Swatches tool to save all the colors to make them easier to work with. Monochromatic had all my favorite shades of purple and I wanted to maintain a primary solid color for the background. Analogous was not my favorite, it had my favorite type of colors which were pastels. I had a hard time trying to mix the colors and make them look good. Compared to the other ones, I loved the color purple and didn't want to keep making it purple in this one. ...
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