The freelance illustrator's starter pack
Author Alex
Learn vital and in demand skills on Adobe illustrator and how to open up succesful Fiverr profiles around them
What you'll learn
Vector portrait illustration
How to create a vector logo design from pictures
How to create a vector icon design
How to create flat minimalist design
How to use the aforementioned skills to open up successful Fiverr accounts and earn
Requirements
A decent computer with adobe illustrator installed, internet service to access fiverr website and your curiosity
Description
Hi, I'm Daniel Ogu, a graphics designer and illustrator for over seven years now.
I created the course because I noticed a large amount of beginners in my field struggle to get a stable amount of gigs, they try to complicate things when really there's a very simple route they could go about to start earning with digital illustrations.
And that route involves two of my favourite things on this planet, Adobe Illustrator and the Fiverr platform.
A novice designer could learn some vector graphics skills on adobe illustrator and since it's a reasonably in demand skill he/she could open up a good gig on the Fiverr platform and start earning. It sounds simple but a lot of people struggle with this because of two main reasons, they don't have the right skills learnt for profit on Adobe illustrator and they don't know how to setup a good profile and gig on the Fiverr platform.
So I've selected four of my high demand skills that has earned me a considerable ton on the Fiverr platform over the years and taught them in this course. I also have a special section teaching you how to open up a successful Fiverr profile and gigs to earn money with these skills learnt.
With over 8hrs of high quality, in demand and detailed tutoring I cover the following topics.
Vector Portrait creation:
This course covers everything you need to know about how to turn any picture to a beautiful vector illustration that can be used for different purposes like for album covers, podcast covers, decorations, merch, the uses art really endless.
Settings things up: is the chapter showing you the best settings to apply on Adobe illustrator while creating a file and with the windows setup to make life a lot easier and smoother while working on vector portraits.
The Pen and shape builder tools: is the chapter that covers the two tools you be using almost exclusively while working on these illustrations, so important I had to create a whole chapter just to ensure you had them mastered.
Outlining Breakdown: is the chapter where I breakdown different subjects so you understand what parts of these subjects will be represented by lines or shapes in the outlining phase. The outlining phase being the skeleton of the vector illustrations, it's important to know how to represent each line or shape in the illustrations with the proper techniques.
Outlining montage: involves an audio described montage of me creating the outlines for our subject used.
Shading theory: is a chapter showing you all what you need to know on general shading theory. Shading is very important to your illustration as it's what helps make certain parts of the illustration appear 3 dimensional. So it's important that you understand general shading theory and my very simple technique for shading on Adobe illustrator.
Shading montage: involves an audio described montage of me creating the shading for our subject used
Colouring theory: in this chapter I cover my process for colouring the vector portraits and I cover the common mistake novice illustrators make while colouring the human skin and how I solve that issue.
Colouring montage: involves an audio described montage of me creating the colouring for our subject used.
Highlighting and Final: these two chapters involve me showing you my processes for creating highlights on the subjects and my final remarks.