Most Wanted Flat Design Techniques #1: Desert Island

Name: Most Wanted Flat Design Techniques #1: Desert Island
Rating: 4.7 (727 reviews)

Flat design : How to create advanced flat design projects in Illustrator Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Created byDawid Tuminski

Last updated 5/2017

English

What you'll learn

Create advanced flat design Desert Island
Create flat design leaves
Create flat design stem and coconuts
Create flat design sun
Create flat design clouds
Create flat design sky
Create flat design island and shadowing
Create flat design sea and waves

Course content

5 sections • 15 lectures • 54m total length

Introduction0:57
Explore more advanced flat design and illustrator techniques, building engaging projects beyond the 15-minute promise while enjoying simple, effective teaching that makes complex concepts easy to learn.
What we are going to be creating in this project3:24
Create a flat deserted island scene using advanced illustrator tools and blending techniques. Build palm trees, sun rays, clouds, and waves with gradients for a dynamic flat design.
Let's create the workspace2:43
Configure your workspace by keeping the Align and Pathfinder tools handy, add the Navigator for multi-artboard work, and save a flat design workspace to streamline future design sessions.

Let's create the palm tree leaves6:45
Design palm tree leaves by creating ellipses, converting anchor points to eye shapes, duplicating and scaling around the center, applying pathfinder divide, cloning, and reflecting to complete the leaf arrangement.
Let's add the stem3:39
Let's finish the palm trees5:19
Learn to group palm leaves and stem, apply the arc warp in vertical band mode, rotate and align leaves, add coconuts, and plan a second palm tree for composition.
Let's add the second palm tree4:32
Create the second palm tree by reflecting the left one, rotating and resizing it, then group, copy, and align it behind using a clipping mask and color tweaks.

Let's create the sky4:42
Create the sky background by shaping an ellipse, applying a blue gradient, and placing the sun and clouds, then divide the scene with a line and divider.
Let's create the island and the shading3:30
Let's create the sea3:55
Create waves using the pencil and blend tool to generate multiple waveforms, adjust anchors and handles, apply fills and strokes, and clone a reflection to form an island sea scene.

Requirements

You will need at least Adobe Illustrator CS2 installed

Description

Have you ever googled flat design, looked at the fantastic flat design images and thought to yourself: Man, I wish I could do that…

Well, with my teaching method, you absolutely can.

This is what one of my students, Ioannis Tsiakos, had to say about one of my courses:

I learnt more in one hour watching this course, than i would have if I had spent days reading online tutorials. Super easy to follow and great examples/ cases that illustrate how illustrator works and how designers think (...). Recommended!

Flat design is the hottest trend in the design world right now and with this course you can get your piece of the flat design pie.

Take a look at just a bit of proven flat design skills you will find inside:

This course is about you learning how to create a flat design desert island. It’s 6 mini projects packed with some great advanced Illustrator tools and techniques such as blending or, warping to satisfy your flat design hunger
Experience the fun and straight to the point approach: feel your Illustrator and flat design skills grow immediately
Step-by-step process: direct, well-paced and actionable techniques with no unwanted space in the tutorials

Join the group of the best designers out there and start creating your own, spectacular flat designs.

Quickly learn powerful and proven Illustrator techniques to jump from the beginner to the advanced level.

And don’t forget, that what you get is a
30-day money back guarantee
So the risk is really on me.

Enroll in the course and find out what it feels like to become a flat design superstar.

See you inside!
Dawid

Who this course is for:

It’s for those who got the basics of Illustrator and want to upgrade their skills
It’s for those who want to create projects in Illustrator in flat design theme
It’s for those who have taken my basics course and are willing to learn more complex design techniques
It's not for those who are expert Illustrator users

Most Wanted Flat Design Techniques #1: Desert Island

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 7min

Let's start the project4 lectures • 20min

Let's create the sun and the clouds2 lectures • 13min

Let's create the sky, island and the sea3 lectures • 12min

In conclusion3 lectures • 3min

Requirements

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Who this course is for: