(upbeat music)
- [Shauna] Okay. What was that you just did?
Hey everyone. And welcome to Adobe Live.
I'm your host, Shauna Lynn and I'm here with Giulia Zoavo,
who is an incredibly talented illustrator based in Brooklyn.
How are you today?
- I am good.
Thank you. How are you?
- I'm good. Excited to have you here.
- Thank you so much everyone for being here.
My name is Giulia Zoavo.
I'm a freelance illustrator and graphic designer.
As Shanna said, I'm based in New York City,
but I'm not originally from New York.
I am Italian, born and raised,
and I moved to the U.S. four years ago
and I've been living and working in Brooklyn ever since.
The topic today is:
The Dream House.
This year, we've been spending a lot of time in our homes.
And
I think
as many of you probably have done,
I spent some time renovating a little bit, the house.
Making it a little bit better, like a positive environment.
- [Shauna] You're mainly going to be using
like using the pen tool, correct?
- [Giulia] Oh yeah. So usually what I use the most,
I do shapes like rectangles
and circles
and I use a lot of a Pathfinder to merge them
and to
make shapes out of the ones that I have.
And also the Align tool is really useful for me when I'm
building shapes.
And I have to be sure that everything is perfectly aligned.
The swatches, the layers,
I use layers a lot just to be sure that everything is in its
place and I think that's pretty much it.
This is just a start of our palette.
It can change. I made global colors.
So it would be pretty easy to change them.
If at some point we want to change something
it's really easy because with global colors,
if you want to change, you can change all the colors,
all the elements that have the same colors.
And it's easy to see with the Preview.
It's super easy to see how it's going to be.
So I just started from the pink and then I was thinking
about some colors that I would like to include in their own
for sure.
So I know that I would like to have
this little night room for sleeping.
So I was thinking first about some kind of blue, purple.
Then I was thinking about other colors that I liked
that I'm using lately,
that go well with the purple.
I was thinking about some oranges, some yellows,
and I was just making some,
you know,
a little bit of improvisation with colors,
but we can always, yes,
I said before, these are global colors.
So for example, this, now that I see everything together,
I think I would like to make it a little bit more pale
so I can still
adjust.
I'm trying to use new colors lately.
I have been using a lot of blue and reds for a long time.
And now I'm trying to explore a little bit more.
- [Shauna] Prince says, I want to know how to,
how to start to create such a fabulous piece,
like some tips to start practicing illustration stuff.
- So for me, what worked for me,
not necessarily what would work for everyone, but for me,
it was more like doing small things.
Like this icon project I
was telling you about that was super useful for me because
it was the opportunity to do several different subjects.
Like it was animals, people, nature,
like all kinds of stuff. And I like many little pieces.
I think that's one good thing to start because like,
you can get familiar with the shades, the tools,
like the technique to master the technique and then...
- To start small.
Peter says,
Are you looking up a photo of an object before you start
sketching?
- Sometimes I do. Yeah.
Especially when, not when I sketch, when I sketch
I tell you about memory,
but when I'm drawing many times, of course,
I need to see this object.
So...
so it's easier.
I don't have a very visual memory.
So many times I need
I need a reminder.
I think it's normal
to need
something to see
just as a reference.
- Okay. What was that you just did?
(Giulia laughs)
- I wanted to do the fin.
So I was thinking that like a quarter of a circle will be
nice.
There's actually like the good thing I mentioned
this yesterday,
One thing I love about working in Illustrator is there
are like 3 million ways
to do
a thing.
It depends on what you like more.
So for me, here I wanted this fin
to be like a little bit circle.
So I just,
I drew the circle
and I
just...
- Oh, that's cool.
- But I could have also done, like, I don't know,
like I take a circle, take a square.
And...
if you do
Pathfinder here,
or there should be there one.
You have the same fin.
And you can do it also with a pen.
- I don't think I've ever seen someone make, you know,
undo the circle like that. So that was really cool.
(Giulia laughs)
- [Giulia] So I want to put a little plant
in front of the house.
I went with circle
and then,
that's another thing I like to do.
I do a stroke
and the stroke can be a dashed line.
And if you put the circle cap
and the dash are like zero.
You can have
like...
a perfect.
- Oh, look at that.
- It's pretty easy to do.
- Oh, I've done that for some sort of thing before.
I don't use Illustrator a whole lot,
but I have used that trick before.
And it's just so, it's so satisfying.
- Yeah.
- I do that too, to make, just like,
if I need to make a dotted line divider.
I'll use that to do
that trick.
It's... cause it's just makes life easy.
- Yeah.
- The work you have made is just gorgeous.
I can't wait to see what you do to just, you know,
do your little finessing and finish it up.
So where can everyone find you to see that final?
- Aw...for sure.
My Behance profile, I will, for sure.
I will upload it on my Behance, on my website,
on my Instagram.
I will put it everywhere.
- [Shauna] Fantastic. Well, thank you so much
for joining us.
- Thank you.
- And chat. Thank you so much
for joining us these past two days.
I hope you had a great time.
Giulia, I hope you had a great time.
It was fantastic to watch you work.