what is that people are welcome back to tutorial graphics today have a
collaboration with the awesome YouTube channel yes I'm a designer yes I'm a
designer is run by Martin curry niak an official Adobe certified instructor with
over 10 years of experience teaching Adobe products now he's worked with such
clients as Nickelodeon and Disney and his channel focuses on illustrations but
also graphic design techniques and theory as well it's a truly awesome
channel that you need to check out link down below and for today's video he has
worked on a low-poly design in Adobe Illustrator that I'm actually gonna take
and implement into my own poster design and that's what you're going to see
today you're going to see my process of a minimal poster design using Martin's
low poly design we're going to be working in Photoshop for today's post
the design and you're going to need an image or a model or maybe even just a
picture of yourself if your image isn't black and whites you can press shift
command U on a Mac or shift control U on a PC and this will dis a straight your
image now taking the rectangle tool I'm going to lay a shape covering the entire
canvas and I'm going to use a kind of beige or off-white color for my shape
now to be able to edit the shape later we're going T to rasterize it like so
now lowering the opacity of the layer is going to allow you to see the future
adjustments that we're about to make now link down below you're gonna find a
brush set for Photoshop which you can download because I'm going to be using
those for the poster today the trick here is to select the eraser
tool and then use the brushstroke brushes to carefully pick out areas of
the model beneath the beige background if the brush stroke doesn't match your
design in the way that you want it to you can just hold down R on your
keyboard and then click and rotate the canvas as you can see I'm doing here
taking your time to do this you can actually end up with a very interesting
base for the poster design you kind of make an image that it looks like the
person is being painted over the top of a background I've got some more tips to
show you coming up as well as some creative input from Martin at the
YouTube channel yes I'm a designer the yeah link down below is the YouTube
channel yes I'm a designer who are actually collaborating in today's video
for this poster design tutorial yes I'm a designer offers some awesome and some
helpful tutorials in debut Illustrator as well as other graphic design related
topics after you watch today's video check out his process for a low poly
design that I'm going to be using here but be sure to check out his video link
down below for his full design process as well as subscribed to his channel for
a useful graphic design content so as I mentioned I'm just gonna take the
framework of his vector design and I want to add it over my design on the
facial region
now after resizing and scaling the line arts I'm not gonna place it over all
layers then hold down the alt or the option key and then click in between the
two layers here to create a mask
and this is a possible choice for the final design outcome if you want the
mask to be seen only in the beige parts of your design but also if you want to
make changes you can select the base layer and then select the brush tool by
pressing B and then sample the color of the beige background
in doing so you can use the brush downloads to paint over where you
originally erased earlier this can actually be achieved with using masks as
well but this way is efficient enough I think now using these skills and
techniques you can really build up an interesting poster design however the
final poster design can really be complemented with some clever typography
typography often makes a poster design complete and I set it on not using a
mask for the face line arts and instead I changed the blend mode to overlay in
the layers window now for the typography I've decided to utilize the graphic
design principle of balance the main focal point of my poster ie the female
model and the brush strokes is sort of neatly created in the upper left of the
design so I've decided to lay the typography to the bottom right which
creates a sense of balance on my design but also only having these two elements
and a lot of negative space makes the poster design somewhat minimal and
visually appealing and for those of you who watch my content often you will know
I'm a big fan of minimal design so there was today's poster design tutorial using
techniques in Photoshop and then some neat typography at the very end remember
to check out Martin's video on yes I'm a designer link down below to see his full
design process of a low poly design and subscribe to my channel for weekly
graphic design content that's going to boost your skills as a graphic designer
have a great day and into next time design your future today
peace