today we're going to be using Adobe Illustrator to make some neat digital
art very easily indeed
welcome back to Satori graphics everybody the homography design content
right here on youtube for today's digital art tutorial you're first going
to need an image of course and I got mine from pixabay which is actually
linked down in description below it's a place to get royalty free stock images
and it's a really useful resource that I always use we want the canvas in
Illustrator to actually fit around the image perfectly and to do this you
simply need to head up to object artboards and then find the fit two
bounds option then go ahead and lock down your image so it doesn't move
around throughout today tutorial today I'm gonna show you some techniques that
I use to make my digital arts and the idea here today guys is that you can use
the very same techniques to be creative and to make your very own digital art
the ellipse tool can be used to make a circle and the first major technique in
today's video is to utilize the transparency panel in fact this is the
main component of today's video on making digital arts in the transparency
panel we're gonna play with the blend modes which will change the effects of
shapes on your design if you build up layers using various different blend
modes and you can make some very interesting designs for sure I
personally like to use overlay and soft light has the main blend modes for the
digital art in this style today so for example I could copy their circle with
command or control C and then paste it right over the top of the command or
control F now I have two different objects with blend modes and you can
still kind of see behind them on the outer image itself I know the neat
effect is to add a gradient to the shape whilst the blend mode is still activated
again play around with this technique and just get creative with it
I find that lowering and adjusting the opacity of the gradient sliders can also
be a good way to make some knee designs and to do that simply click one side of
the gradient and then change the opacity values
so I'm going to copy this layer again and paste the third circle at the top
it's all about being creative and expanding upon your original image using
these skills and these techniques
another technique that you might want to use for this style of digital art is
applying a drop shadow to a shape or an aspect of your design I further adding a
very subtle shadow in the right way can look awesome and to do that I simply
head into the stylize options here and play around the settings having the
preview box checked the entire time for this kind of design work you might want
to set up an RGB document rather than CMYK especially be going to use things
like drop shadows this is because the blends of shadows work a lot better in
Illustrator if the document is RGB how to digital art design becomes more
complex it would be a good idea to use the layers window this is much like the
layer stack in Photoshop but it helps you in Illustrator because you can
locate lock/unlock and edit specific layers easily the blue square icon on
the right that you can see here lets us know which layer is actually currently
selected if you want to lock a layer just come
over to here and click the lock icon now for one of the best techniques for my
digital artwork and that is to utilize the mesh tool so I will go ahead and
duplicate another shape and then proceeds add a mesh over the circle with
the mesh tool once that's added click to create some mesh lines then you can see
when I press I for the eyedropper tool and sample colors from the image itself
I can then press u to revert back to the mesh tool and select a different section
repeating this process over and over is really neat on this kind of design
because a blend mode is not normal and the shapes below it too or somewhat
transparent so you end up with a really cool effect over the top of your image
you should just play around this effect and spend some time perfecting it I
really like this relaxed and experimental style of digital art in
Adobe Illustrator and as you can see my design is advancing onwards and I have
one more effects for you to use I have a live circle here with a blend mode of
overlay had a gradient fill I also have a rectangle around the artboard which I
can select in combination with the shape by holding down shift
then control or right-click and make a clipping mask this will leave the area
on the canvas itself which just keeps everything neat and tidy as well as
looking really cool so by using all of today's techniques that I've spoken
about and taking your time to be creative you can end up with a digital
design just like mine here I've also added a solid color overlay which you
can see but what do you guys think does it look better with or without I think
it needs to be there in my design but maybe in a lower of a city because I do
want a soft and kind of cold style for this design oh yeah by the way in the
layers panel things can get quite hectic so it's always a good idea to double
click the name of your layer and then rename it so you can keep track of
everything oh and lastly of course I did some typography in a kind of neat and
subtle manner for some reason I thought Chinese script will look good here so I
found the Chinese word for peace and I'm not sure if it's correct but I think it
is
so yeah there's my digital I work in today's video made easy remember to take
your time to get creative with all these techniques that I've shown you today and
make something cool if you want to boost your awareness and your skills as a
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next time guys design your future today peace
you