Designing an Action Composition in Illustrator
In this course, we'll create a vector character with an action pose using brush tool and pen tool. Software required: Adobe Illustrator CS5.
What you'll learn
In this course, we'll create a vector character with an action pose using brush tool and pen tool. Throughout these lessons, we'll combine the use of simple lines and paths to create a 2D action character composition with layers. By the end of this course, you will have the understanding of drawing action compositions with Adobe Illustrator just by using the brush and pen tools. Software required: Adobe Illustrator CS5.
Table of contents
- Sketching Our Base Layer 10m
- Creating Our Ink Layer 9m
- Outlining and Digital Inking 10m
- Designing the Right Arm and Hand 9m
- Executing the Left Arm 9m
- Producing Upper Body Shadow Detail 9m
- Producing the Mask 8m
- Defining the Mask 9m
- Forming the Upper Legs 8m
- Constructing the Sneakers 8m
- Customizing the Front Sneaker 10m
- Advancing the Back Leg and Sneaker 9m
- Creating Our Weapon 8m
- Flat Coloring Using Paths 8m
- Adding Midtones 9m
- Implementing the Background and Underlay 8m
- Completing the Final Elements 9m
About the author
Marcus Kiser’s work draws inspiration from a broad range of sources varying from classical art to comic books and graffiti. He’s an artist and graphic designer who’s comfortable in an equally broad range of media from studio art, to books, clothes, and magazine covers — all distinguished by his ability to distill ideas to a striking, almost iconic image that is often dense and multi-layered, yet always accessible. A graphic designer and illustrator for 13 years, his work pulls from mass media an... more