The Futur Greg Gunn – Illustration for Designers

The Futur Greg Gunn – 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 material

01 Illustration for Designers

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.

Difficulty Level
Beginner to intermediate

Prerequisite
Access to Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator CC, or Procreate for the iPad. While a graphics tablet is not required, it is recommended

Learning Roadmap
Supplement your design education while developing your unique illustration style

02 Greg’s work

Learn to illustrate the types of projects you want to get hired for, expand your portfolio, and attract your ideal clients.

03 How this works

DEVELOP YOUR STYLE 

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.

MASTER THE FUNDAMENTALS

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.

START ILLUSTRATING

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.

LEARN TIPS & TRICKS

Ready for more?
Learn how to apply lighting tricks, work with techniques such as overprinting, and so much more.

SHARE YOUR WORK

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.

04 Who is this for?

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

05 Meet your instructor

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.

06 Syllabus

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
Watch the video lectures and complete your project at your own pace, on your own time.

Introduction

A quick overview of what you’ll learn, the tools you’ll need, and the difference between design and illustration.

Finding Your Style

Bring together your unique visual language and subject matter so your work is like no other.

The Fundamentals

Build and stylize objects using simple shapes and tricks—perfect for beginners!

The Project

Create a brief and illustrate your own personal project, including thumbnail development, refining sketches, and adding finishing touches like color, shadows, and texture as well as presenting concepts to clients.

Tips & Tricks

Bring life to your illustrations with techniques such as lighting tricks, glows, underpainting and so much more.

Bonuses

Get your hands on Greg’s favorite tools, books, and go-to strategies for posting illustrations on Instagram.

08 Resources

How to Diagnose Potential Clients’ Problems
We hate to be the Bad News Bears, but people straight up do not like to be sold to. Fortunately for you and everyone else in the business of selling things, people do love it when you solve their problems. So that’s what we suggest you do instead.

The Secret Lives of Color
A dazzling gift, the unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume.

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