Here’s another assortment of videos showing the hands on execution phase of the design process. Yes, I know that a good magi­cian is not sup­posed to reveal their tricks, but I love videos that show how great artists weave their magic spells.

Please note, these aren’t how-to videos, they are more art­ful than hands-on, so sit back and enjoy, because they are still worth the time. They give you a greater appre­ci­a­tion of the skill and craft that goes into cre­at­ing these works, which will help us all a being bet­ter at graphic and motion designers. For hands on training check out my favorite sites, Lynda.com or the Tuts+ Network.

Science Machine by Chad Pugh
This is a pretty amazing illustration, Chad Pugh spent roughly 40 hours working in Adobe Illustrator creating the amazing illustration “Science Machine.” Over that time, he took a screen capture every five seconds. Enjoy the creation of this information dense masterpiece! By the way, the 36″ x 24″ print can be purchased at Chad’s online store: store.thebigpugh.com

Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.

 

T.J. Thomson designs a center spread for his College Newspaper
Chadron State College‘s student T.J. Thomson waxes poetic about design and we are treated to a time-lapse video of his production technique.

 

Glennz Illus­tra­tion Process — Mr. Tree by Glenn Jones
Last week I showed his great video North­ern Cel­e­bra­tions. This week, watch mas­ter illus­tra­tor, Glenn Jones as he makes a cool T-Shirt design based on Mr T. He’s com­pressed 45 min­utes of design good­ness into 3. It’s hard to catch but I like how he uses the roughen filter to make his vector Mr. T Chia Pet look organic. A good trick to remember!

He sketches the design with a Wacom Tablet and then he turns that into a guide layer, then he goes over it with the Pen Tool in Adobe Illus­tra­tor. He must have a black belt in Bézier curves for sure! Be sure to check out all of his videos on Vimeo, they’re awesome!

Glennz Illustration Process – Mr. Tree from Glenn Jones on Vimeo.

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