Integrating a Character with a Logo in Illustrator
In this series of lessons we will focus on integrating a character into a logo in Illustrator. Software required: Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4.
What you'll learn
In this series of lessons we will focus on integrating a character into a logo in Illustrator. We'll begin by learning about the steps in the design process that lead up to building our logo. These steps include getting to know a little bit about our client, then gathering some research and reference materials for the project. Next, we'll discuss outputting our ideas in the form of quick thumbnails and sketches. From there start to build our logo by looking at a couple different ways that we can create inked line work for our character. We'll then send this line work over to illustrator and convert it into a usable vector format. Next, we'll arrange all of the elements of our composition creating a relationship between them. We'll then begin adding color to our design spending a good deal of time adding shadows and highlights to our character. Finally, we'll fine tune the logo by adjusting some potential problems areas before presenting it to our client. Software required: Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4.
Table of contents
- Design Process Leading up to Building the Logo 10m
- Creating Inked Line Work for Our Character 13m
- Converting Inked Line Work to Vector Shapes 12m
- Placing Design Elements 12m
- Creating the Tree Stump Shape 11m
- Applying Flat Color to Our Character 10m
- Creating a Pattern on the Character's Bib 11m
- Beginning to Add Shadows to Our Character 11m
- Adding Shadows to the Head and Arm 11m
- Adding Shadows to the Neck and Arm 10m
- Adding Shadows to the Cheeks and Ears 10m
- Adding Shadows to the Nose and Hand 11m
- Adding Shadows to the Hand and Fork 11m
- Adding Shadows to the Other Hand 10m
- Adding Shadows to the Teeth and Bib 11m
- Adding Final Shadows to the Character 7m
- Adding Highlights to the Character's Head 12m
- Adding Highlights to the Ears, Nose and Teeth 11m
- Adding Highlights to the Character's Arms 12m
- Adding Highlights to the Hands and Fork 11m
- Adding Color to the Areas of Type 11m
- Beginning to Add Nails to Some Letterforms 10m
- Adding Some Finishing Touches 11m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more