Create a Happy Illustration for a Magazine Article Design – Vector Premium Tutorial
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop CS
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Estimated Completion Time: 10 hours+
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial, which is available exclusively for Premium members. Learn how to create an attractive woman in motion and mock it up for client review in a magazine style article design.
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In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a happy, dancing girl illustration and then incorporating it into a magazine style article design to show potential clients how your illustrations can be used in context.<
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Holy vectors! I wanna go premium just for this! :)
Thank you for the feedback! :D
Well, well…
…the illustration is ok. The pose doesn’t really look happy, but rather awkward.
The typography is a mess. I have seen that quite a few times on tutsplus. Bad typography kills the overall result.
The headline seems to literally punch the girl in the waist. The bold and block-like type doesn’t correspond with the health theme and the organic fluid shapes of the girls hair and body. The drop shadow’s color is completely alien to the composition.
The float of the left text block is way too close to the illustration. It is doing push and shove with the poor lady. The whole text block dominating the page. Together with the strong vertical line of the left side of the girl’s silhouette, it leaves the impression the girl being pushed against a wall by the text.
Let the layout breathe!
Considering the fact that all the points you make are valid, you have to remember this is a tutorial :)
I haven’t read it myself, but I am guessing that placing text into a non-rectangular shape is one of the things you can learn in this tutorial.
If the columns were slimmer and moved further to the left in order to let the layout breathe, one educational part of the tutorial would be missing.
well, just a little thought about it :)
I didn’t mean to be rude, but it reads “magazine article design” in the headline. And that part of the tutorial (designing the page) is poorly executed. I think valid critizism should be embraced for it helps making things better. Just a few tweaks would lift this tutorial from average to great.
Besides, i didn’t say the columns shouldn’t float. I said they float too close. So what would be missing, when they float in correct position?
Sharon is a great vector artist, no doubt about that. I am far from creating such artwork. But i have a humble knowledge about typography so why shouldn’t i contribute?
And yes, i am a little straightforward sometimes. That’s because i consider political correctness as the greatest plague of our time.
Hey Flyingfox,
Thanks for your feedback on this and I do appreciate any constructive criticism on any work I do. I do take on your typography points as they are indeed valid.
In no way as a defence but as something I should point out is that the tutorial primarily focuses on the illustration rather than the magazine article itself. In fact 51 steps of illustration and 10 steps of the layout (of which 2 of those are non typography related. The point to this portion of the tutorial is to show prospective clients how your illustrations can be used rather than as a stand alone product.
The section on the layout of the article itself is briefly looked at and introduces the reader to a couple of tools which may be of use, rather than typography theory which is what your critique is referring to.
Your points are valid and it’s something I will take on board in the future.
Thank you again for your constructive criticism, we can all learn a lot from such discussions :)
Shar :)
I´m agree with you regarding tipography. The illustration is beatiful but it really need a better page design, the content is not well designed that all. It should be free non premium tutorial.
is good to know that is possible to do it on Ai and Ps, page design is usually done with Indesign :)
and I¨m not so good with iD haha