Realistic Vector Art Principles (Affinity,Adobe Illustrator)

An INTERMEDIATE Level Class to Grant Yourself a Giant Leap as an Artist (Affinity Designer or any other vector software)

Created by: Isabel Aracama
Illustrator & Designer

What Will I Learn?

• - How to look and prepare good references.
• - The process, methods and techniques involved in the creation of any high quality realistic illustration using vectors.
• - How to "read" an object to see what we really see and not what we know about it.
• - How to use simple tools in clever ways.
• - The techniques involved in the creation of this kind of art.
• - Do's and don'ts when drawing with vectors in order to get the best results.
• - How to paint with vectors.
• - What vector software is able to do, beyond the usual beliefs, and to understand that it can be done with just a few tools and techniques.
• - How to create a realistic car illustration. The student will follow along until the completion of the final project, a Porsche 911.

Requirements

• - Intermediate knowledge of vector applications. I'll work in Affinity Designer, although any other vector software is also suitable (Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, Gravit, Sketch, etc.)
• - How to work with layers
• - How to work with gradients and transparencies
• - How to use effects (glows, shadows, blurs, etc)
• - How to work with boolean operations (subtract, intersect, combine, add, divide)

Target audience

• INTERMEDIATE USER. This is not a beginners class.
• Artists and designers willing to quickly boost their ability drawing with vectors and to understand in depth how vector software and graphics software in general works, beyond our usual beliefs.