Conceptualization and Sketching for an Illustrated Look

[? Music ?] 0:00 [Code Racer] [Illustration: Sketching & Conceptual] 0:02 This project is the walrus project. 0:05 We're going to be creating a walrus illustration 0:08 with kind of a kiddish, thick line 0:11 illustration look to it, a real simple layout. 0:15 Right now we're going to be referencing images to work with 0:18 to create our own, so usually what I do is 0:21 use Google search, Flikr, to search through image libraries. 0:24 Sometimes I use references like books, magazines, 0:29 kid's books, go to Barnes & Noble. 0:32 But for the majority, I use the Web. 0:34 So, we'll jump in to Google Images 0:38 and see if we can find some good walrus images. 0:42 Usually I start off pretty generic. 0:49 Usually what I'll do is grab the image. 0:51 Let's see, what do we have here? 0:54 I'll grab this guy, just drag it to the desktop. 0:56 And I'll just start a collection on the desktop, 1:00 and then we'll organize it later. 1:03 This guy, grab this one right here. 1:05 This process used to take quite a while, 1:11 and you can spend days, weeks on research 1:14 just going through libraries of either books 1:16 or stock images on disc. 1:19 I remember doing that a while back, 1:22 but now everything is pretty much shared, 1:24 and it's pretty simple to get good references. 1:26 Screenshot that. 1:32 We've got some fine art stuff on here. This will work too. 1:35 Yeah, I mean, it could take hours, days. 1:38 But for this, it's pretty straightforward. Pretty simple. 1:41 And it's going to be very original. 1:44 I'll take all the images and put them in some sort of image manager 1:47 like iPhoto, Bridge, or just Folder in general. 1:50 Cool, so the next step is going to be sketching, 1:54 and I'm going to use the images that we grabbed 1:57 from the image library of Google and Flikr 2:00 and just start sketching. 2:03 Usually I start off with the actual shapes themselves. 2:05 The walrus is pretty round, so I'll start off with the head here. 2:10 [sketching noises] 2:15 I sketched some stuff out, and I found something I want to work with, 2:22 so the next step is I'm going to ink it, 2:25 so I've got some tracing paper and some markers. 2:28 And we are going to ink this guy right here. 2:31 [sketching noises] 2:35 Yeah, that'll work. 2:46 The next step is going to be taking a photo with my iPhone. 2:48 Usually we just use a scanner, but we don't have to now 2:52 because we can get a high enough resolution shot with the iPhone, 2:55 and then I'm going to email it to myself and then pull that image 2:58 into Illustrator and use that as a reference. 3:01 There, that's it. 3:08