Impactful Character & Poster Design with Danielle Murrell Cox - 2 of 2 | Adobe Creative Cloud

Join Illustrator Danielle Murrell Cox on Adobe Live as she brings a character and story to life. Using a photo as reference, Danielle will sketch her character in Fresco before adding color & text in Illustrator. Learn how she conveys emotion through custom fonts and thoughtful color choices, and stick around for part two to see how she incorporates the final illustration into a poster design.

Guest Danielle Murrell Cox is an illustrator and graphic designer and author of “My Hair” based in Montreal: https://www.dmcox.co/

Host Anna Daviscourt is an Illustrator and former Adobe Creative Resident based in Portland: https://www.behance.net/annadaviscourt

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Chapters

00:00 Start

02:44 Recap of Danielle’s work and and day 1 work

05:36 Starting work in AI - from sketch to vector

08:42 Adobe Color Themes in Adobe Illustrator

10:53 Using line options for curves

12:45 Joining two line segments

22:36 Continuing to make basic shapes to create illustration

25:26 Using guides to align images

28:30 Using the Scissors tool to cut lines

32:20 Beginning work on the background - basic shapes

36:37 Placing abstract shapes

38:34 Working on the type - creating a typeface

46:50 Continuing to create the typeface

55:40 Discussing silk screening t-shirts

59:04 Finishing mapping out letters

1:01:12 Editing and combining the letter shapes

1:09:28 Creating shapes with the Pathfinder Tool

1:12:20 Filling in the shapes on the illustration - choosing colors

1:18:55 Adding shadows to create depth

1:22:38 Making color choices for the type

1:26:20 Artist Spotlight of its.daylen instagram.com/its.daylen/

1:34:33 Returning to the illustration - adjusting the type composition

1:37:53 Adding a background color and changing text colors

1:44:50 Cropping the illustration

1:48:15 Continuing to arrange the type layout

1:52:50 Rearranging the layout to allow room for the type

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