Illustration for Patterns with Soul

Start the course by getting to know Catalina Estrada a little better. She tells you how she became an illustrator, how she created her own graphic language through voluntary social projects, and what are her major influences.

How to start illustrating? See how Catalina starts her creative process as she guides you to do so as well, starting from a text, song, or something that makes you vibrate and drives you to create. From there, extract concepts and emotions to materialize in images: drawing and digitizing them, or illustrating them directly on a digital medium. These are the images you will use for your printed composition.

See how to vectorize your drawings and export them to Adobe Illustrator. Then, learn some tricks and tools within the software to get more detailed compositions, including how to turn some elements into digital brushes.

Create your color palettes from photos that inspire you, making the color mood of your print and applying it to your illustrations. Catalina shows you how, starting from small compositions in Illustrator, you can easily create full-color prints.

Apply your prints to two pieces: first in a handkerchief design, then adapt it to a single ink to apply to a package design. Finally, apply your design to mockup to be able to visualize it without physically producing it, and even share it on social media.