Jack Watson

Illustrator Creative Challenges. April 2022

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Below you’ll find a collection of all of the Illustrator Creative Challenges on Adobe Live from March 28–April 8, 2022. The starter files, videos, and final art are included, if you want to create along with me!

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Creating An Album Cover That Rocks

Combine typography and illustration for a custom album cover.

Adobe Illustrator Challenges 1, album art. Two fake album covers, both Rhythm 'N' Bits by Yoann Turpin. Left design purple monochromatic. Wavy lines around a wavy circle. Right design same design but in red and on a vinyl album mock-up.

Maps Made Easy

Skills Challenge; Use perspective tools in illustrator to design an isometric map layout.

Adobe Illustrator Challenges 2, isometric maps. Two maps of Ohio, very stylized, isometric perspective. Left map simplified, red houses, purple house, road, and trees. Right map more detailed, landscape elevations, red and purple houses, road, and trees.

DIY Coloring Page

Illustration Challenge; Use the stroke width tool to create a coloring page of line art.

Adobe Illustrator Challenges 3 and 4, coloring page. Left side challenge 3, line art of a tree with a treehouse, ladder, and tire swing. Middle same treehouse colored in, purple house, orange leaves. Right, same treehouse colored in, red house, green leaves.

How To Color Comics

Illustration Challenge; Add shading and color to your line art by using fills, blending modes, and opacity.

How To Design A YouTube Thumbnail

Marketing Challenge; Make your YouTube video stand out with a custom thumbnail! Use compositing tools to create an eye catching YouTube thumbnail image.

Adobe Illustrator Challenges 5, YouTube cover art. Pink background, photo of a donut box set at an angle. The world's best, you donut want to miss these . Arrow pointing to the box, blue silhouette donuts in the background.

Create Your Own Logo

Logo Challenge; Create a logo that tells a story using negative space and the pathfinder tools.

Adobe Illustrator Challenges 6, negative space logos. Two Cosmic logos. Berry shape with a "C" in the silhouette of the berry. Cosmic text below in an arc. Left side soild black, right side pink and orange gradient. Bottom text "cosmic, astronaut ice cream, playful, quirky, wholesome.

From Sketch To Vector

Illustration Challenge; Convert your hand-drawn sketch into a vector character by using the pen tool and simple shapes.

Adobe Illustrator Challenges 7, sketch to vector. Top left, pencil sketch of a dog. Top right, full color character drawn from sketch, orange dog, blue nose and eyes. Bottom, 4 pencil sketches of other dogs not used.

Esports Team Logo

Branding Challenge; Use the appearance panel to add strokes and effects to create an E-Sports Logo.

Adobe Illustrator Challenges 8, esports logo. The Raytracers in blue and teal. circle in the background with arrows, long cast shadow in perspective on the entire logo.

Designing A Mandala Pattern

Illustration Challenge; Design with the patter brush to create a custom Mandala.

Adobe Illustrator Challenges 9, mandala patterns. Left a circular floral blue line and halftone pattern, Right, a yellow, orange, and red sunburst pattern.

Challenge Recap

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