Lettering and Illustration Composition, Techniques, and Application (Spanish, Multisub)

Learn to combine letters and illustration in an effective way
In this course, Sindy and R3do will teach you techniques to work with lettering and illustration and help you that both disciplines coexist harmoniously in your designs.

Through the creation of a tourist guide based on the obligatory stops to taste the local gastronomy, you will learn to compose your designs in an effective way using layouts and reticles.

What will you learn in this online course?
To begin, Sindy and R3do will show you how they approach their designs and how they have worked together on different projects; sharing with you their work process from the conception of the idea, the direction of art, the sketching, the creation of the layout and until the final execution: effects, finishes …

They will reveal all kinds of tips, both lettering and illustration, which will be of great help to solve complex design projects.

You will learn how to order the images that will serve as a base and inspiration to create your designs and select the color palette.

Then you will sort the elements in a layout to create a meaningful composition and you will understand why it is essential to establish a structure, following criteria of space and hierarchy, that gives meaning to all the elements.

Once the layout is defined, you will immerse yourself with Sindy in the world of lettering and you will know different techniques, analogous and digital, to draw letters and vectorize them. In addition, it will give you tips to select the type of letter that best suits your design.

R3do will teach you how to illustrate from the lettering, how to select the most appropriate illustration style for your design and some very useful tips for those who dominate less the field of illustration. Thanks to the brushes, textures and shading you will give your designs a more complete final finish.

Finally, you will combine the illustrations with the lettering in a single composition.

What is this course’s project?
Based on the recommendations you would give to a friend when it comes to eating and going out at night, moving like a local in your own city, you will design an illustrated tourist guide that reflects the essence of your city, neighborhood or country.

Making use of the lessons and advice of Sindy and R3do, you will design and illustrate a set of three small compositions that you can share together or individually.

Who is this online course for?
This course is aimed at students and professionals, lovers of lettering, typography and illustration. To make the most of this course, prior knowledge of lettering or typography is also necessary; also basic notions of illustration are recommended.

Requirements and materials
You will need pencils, fountain pens and brush pens. A notebook for sketching and paper albanene. It is also necessary to have a computer with Photoshop and Illustrator as well as a digitizing tablet.