'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.
Webflippy's Youtube channel focuses on Photoshop Tutorials. This video centers on a simple yet effective affect of making an object in a picture obtain a glowing effect. The most common tool used was the blending tool which seems fairly easy but also has a variety of blending options. There was not much information in the video to provide explanation for each tool but did show the diversity of forms within the blending tool. MDMZ's video does something many people in current social media do to curate their feed. People love to photoshop themselves in destination and use a different pictures to sell a perspective to their audience. I loved this video in particular because it is a slower paced to understand the how to edit all these pictures one-by-one. This is a great example of modifying and blending that can be done in photoshop that can make it seamless. Most of the tutorials included in this post always use the selection tool to work off from. The hardest tool seem to be...
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.
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