Digital Tutors - Designing a Two Color T-Shirt in Illustrato

In this series of lessons we'll focus on creating a design for a two-color t-shirt.

To begin this course, we'll talk through a possible concept for the design and then setup our file so we can begin

building the artwork. Next, we'll examine each step in constructing an illustrative component for our design including

starting with an initial shape, adding various details, and then applying both shadows and highlights. After completing

our illustration, we'll add type and then examine one method for integrating the different components of our design

using a texture. Throughout this process, we'll be using a variety of drawing and painting tools inside Illustrator as

well as the pathfinder panel and custom brush strokes. After completing this course, you will have a better

understanding of the techniques used to build vector t-shirt artwork as well as some considerations that must be

accounted for when designing a t-shirt with a limited amount of colors.

Lesson Outline (11 lessons)

1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Setting up our document and project specifications
3. Drawing the base shape of the heart illustration
4. Drawing in portions of tissue for the heart illustration
5. Creating a thick white stroke around our heart illustration
6. Drawing in shadows using the Pen tool
7. Drawing in shadows using the blob brush
8. Drawing in the veins for our heart illustration
9. Adding highlights to the heart illustration
10. Adding type to our design
11. Creating a background texture to unify our design elements