Digital Drawing and Painting in Illustrator and Photoshop

Introduction and Project Overview
Hey everyone, Eric Kunzendorf here. I'm an associate professor of animation at Jacksonville University, and I've got over 20 years experience teaching and practicing animation and digital art. I've produced independent animations as well as digital prints that I've shown at the regional and national levels. In this course we're going to create digital ink and paint with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Some of the major topics that we will be discussing in this course will include, but are not limited to, exploring different methods of gesture drawing, using cross contour lines to give form to gestures, creating structure using simple shapes like cubes, spheres, and cylinders, creating brushes in both Illustrator and Photoshop, combining and editing lines as objects in Illustrator, and examining different ways of applying color, tints, and shades in Photoshop. By the end of the training you will have a large 30 by 20 inch print that you can print out, but most importantly you should be able to apply these skills when creating prints of your own. I'm excited to work with Digital Tutors and share these powerful tricks and techniques with fellow artists, so tune in, turn on, sign up, and sign in. Let's get started with the first lesson.