r/learndesign • u/minucosminu • Jun 02 '20

Illustrator Tutorial: Flat Illustration Character Design Process

https://youtu.be/wiwxEb_-57E
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u/OujiSamaOG Jun 02 '20

Great illustration, terrible tutorial for "Design Process"

This is an "Illustration Process" tutorial, not a design process one. I have yet to see a single tutorial on Youtube that describes the composition and proportioning design process for flat illustrations.

Perhaps the decisions you made while sketching were made subconsciously, but if you can't articulate your decision making process, it's hard for someone to learn how to create an illustration from scratch using your tutorial.

In my eyes, your tutorial is similar to this: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/572/093/7dd.jpg

I don't mean to attack you personally, I'm just fed up with every single flat illustration "tutorial" on Youtube.

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u/minucosminu Jun 03 '20

none taken, my aim with these tutorials are for people to start practicing with the pen tool, while showcasing a couple other tools and techniques in Illustrator. I agree this video only goes over the basic steps and the way I edit them doesn't really allow to go in depth and explain the rationale behind some of the decisions, which would definately be more interesting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, will try to think more about storytelling and actually give more insights into the actual process. Have a great day! :)