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Expand your design skill set and develop your own unique illustration style—no prior drawing experience required. Illustration is the perfect solution for designers who want to dip their toes into the world of illustration and junior illustrators looking to sharpen their skills.
Beginner to intermediate
Access to Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator CC, or Procreate for the iPad. While a graphics tablet is not required, it is recommended
Supplement your design education while developing your unique illustration style
Learn to illustrate the types of projects you want to get hired for, expand your portfolio, and attract your ideal clients.
There's Only One You—Let it Show!
What's your style? Because what you aren't going to learn is how to replicate someone else's. You have a unique voice, a unique point of view, and unique subject matter—you'll bring your style together so all of that shines.
All Levels Welcome
You'll learn some simple tricks to stylize objects in illustrations, building objects using shapes, add details, and work through how design principles work within the illustration world.
Create Your Own Illustration Project
Working from a creative brief, you'll sketch thumbnails, refine your sketch, and add details, color, light, shadow, and textures.
Ready for more?
Learn how to apply lighting tricks, work with techniques such as overprinting, and so much more.
Beyond Basic Instagram Posting
You've put so much work into your illustration—don't hide it. You'll learn creative ways to share your work on Instagram that go beyond a simple, "This is my illustration- hope you like it." Get the most out of your work and learn Greg's Instagram posting system so can milk as much content out of your illustration- posting more work more often.
There's Only One You— Let it Show!
What's your style? Because what you aren't going to learn is how to replicate someone else's. You have a unique voice, a unique point of view, and unique subject matter— you'll bring your style together so all of that shines.
All Levels Welcome
You'll learn some simple tricks to stylize objects in illustrations, building objects using shapes, add details, and work through how design principles work within the illustration world.
Create Your Own Illustration Project
Working from a creative brief, you'll sketch thumbnails, refine your sketch, and add details, color, light, shadow, and textures.
Ready for more?
Learn how to apply lighting tricks, work with techniques such as overprinting, and so much more.
Beyond Basic Instagram Posting
You've put so much work into your illustration—don't hide it. You'll learn creative ways to share your work on Instagram that go beyond a simple, "This is my illustration— hope you like it." Get the most out of your work and learn Greg's Instagram posting system so you can milk as much content out of your illustration— posting more work more often.
Ask Questions, Get Advice, Be Inspired
Your enrollment also gives you access to our private Illustration Circle Community. Chat and collaborate with designers and illustrators from all over the world.
This course is for any designer looking to understand type to improve their layout and design skills.
I learned more about typography in this course than during my BA in graphic design. This gives me confidence that I can make effective layouts and better design of any kind. I also felt I was part of a community, who learned together. Once a week for seven weeks, Chris critiqued our submitted layouts and this motivated us to put knowledge into practice and submit our work. This course is the best investment I've made in myself in becoming a better graphic designer. And I've invested in a lot of courses and books.
If you're interested in visual communication, want to add new services to your creative business, or love drawing then this course is for you.
I've always loved to draw, but was never great at making things look real. Or even technically accurate. Rather than get discouraged, I decided to embrace my limitations and make that part of my style. If you're not the best at drawing, but want to learn how to make your own digital illustrations, then I think you'll enjoy this one. It's not about making things look real. It's about making things look interesting and unique to you.
Greg Gunn
Creative Director
Greg is part creative professional, part artist, and a whole believer in the power of helping others.
His whimsical, vibrant, character-driven work has brought smiles (and more business) to wonderful clients including Disney, Facebook, Microsoft, Starbucks, NerdWallet, and Google.
By day, Greg works for The Futur™ a design-education company helping creatives all over the world earn a living doing what they love. He co-hosts The Futur™ Podcast, produces educational content for YouTube, and teaches aspiring creatives how to not suck at color.
In his free time, he creates original artwork for Instagram and bestows knowledge, experience, and inspiration through a weekly newsletter strangely named, TLDR.
Get a beginner-friendly introduction to illustration and then dive into your own personal project where you'll develop a brief and get hand-on with the illustration process—from thumbnails and sketching, to adding finishing touches and presenting.
Course
Curriculum
Illustration for Designers
Bring more visual interest and emotion to client work, stand out with your own illustration style, and break free from your reliance on overused stock photos and clip art.
- 40 video lessons
- Digital illustration assignment with layered files
- Color palettes
- Thumbnail and presentation templates
- Bonus Videos
- Lifetime updates
