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But have you ever wondered who teaches them? Award-winning story artist, Alex Woo, does. In this incredible, eye-opening course, Alex will break down the fundamentals of gesture drawing into 7 foundational topics. You will learn the importance of distilling gestures into lines of action and simple shapes, creating strong silhouettes, effectively using space, extrapolating ideas from a pose rather than just anatomy, and finally, finding stories in your gesture drawing. "Gesture Drawing with Alex Woo" consists of 8 lectures presented over 12 weeks. Lesson Plan Watch Preview Lesson 1 - Line of Action The line of action is the foundation upon which you will build the rest of your drawing. Lesson 2 - Shape Shape will help you determine the overall feel and dynamics of your drawing.

Drawing Vector Graphics. Overview Transcript View Offline Exercise Files Updated Released Join illustrative designer Von Glitschka as he deconstructs the creative process to teach you how to develop and create precise vector graphics.

Welcome. About this video Learn how to create detailed isometric views of buildings, vehicles, and even people, with Adobe Illustrator.

Overview Transcript View Offline Exercise Files Released Isometric illustrations offer a unique view, perfect for technical illustrations, city scenes, and retro-inspired design. What they lack in perspective, they make up for in clarity, and have been used to diagram complex information for centuries. Become a Digital Illustrator - Learning Path. Welcome. About this video.

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I had hacked together my own design education in 6 months while working a full-time job. I didn’t think I was ready but started applying for jobs anyway – and got a job at a great startup, Exec. To be clear, I’m nowhere near as good as those design prodigies that come out of a 4-year education at an elite school like RISD. But I’m definitely good enough to do my job well. Creativelive. Creativelive. 53 design terms and tips to help marketers level-up. When I first started out in marketing, I didn’t quite predict that I’d be a part-time designer, too.

Now, in 2016, visual content is more than 40X more likely to get shared on social media than other types of content and it’s become obvious and even necessary for all of us marketers to have at least some basic knowledge of key design terms. All Killer, No Filler This one’s different, trust us. Our new event for New York is focused on quality, not quantity. Thankfully, we live in a wonderful world where anyone can make the jump from novice to intermediate and create well-designed images for social media. The Design School's Ultimate Guide to Designing With Backgrounds [With Ready-to-Use Templates] – Design School. Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as to accomplish a particular purpose. – Charles Eames In order to arrange your design, you need a place to start.

Backgrounds are the foundation of your graphics — it helps pave the path to forming a successful composition. Textures and colors help create depth and contrast, allowing your graphics to stand out and get noticed. Well composed images can help create space for you to overlay text, while visually communicating your message at the same time. Using a background can help give your designs more context and provide a visual element to help support your content. Bonus: We’ve designed most of the images in this article as templates for you to personalize! The background you choose can change your design dramatically and make your graphics feel more complete. In this post we’ll show you how to form aesthetically pleasing backgrounds using various graphic techniques like textures, flat color, gradients, and image treatments.

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