Illustration with a Social Purpose: Leave Your Artistic Mark

Start the course by getting to know your teacher, illustrator Fatinha Ramos. She talks about her career and how she made the move from graphic design and advertising art direction to the world of editorial illustration. She also shares the main pieces and artists that have left their mark on her own work.

Take a look at the materials you need to complete your final project. Briefly study the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and choose the two themes that most interest you for your illustration. Then put together a mood board of reference materials and use it to do some initial pencil sketches.

Now get ready to embark on a creative journey and watch your piece spring to life. Fatinha teaches you to digitalize your sketches and finish off the design in Adobe Photoshop. Learn to create original textures on paper combining materials such as gouache, black gesso, and pastels before discovering how to translate your handcrafted textures to your digital illustration in Photoshop.

Wrap things up by making some definitive adjustments to your illustration by adding shadow and other details and see how to export your file to different online platforms. Fatinha gives you some final tips on how to increase your social media visibility.