Illustrator Series: Digital Art in Illustration

Digital techniques and tips and tricks using the Adobe CS.

Today traditional and digital techniques are used interchangeably as part of creating final illustration work. Many of you may already use digital tools in either creating your work, preparing your work for delivery or the internet. In this workshop we’ll look at Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign and each programmes' specific features in digital art and layout design for children’s illustration. Creating your own textures, brushes, developing layers for animation, and painting as well as uses for composition and colour exploration will be covered. Time will be set aside for sharing digital stories and techniques with the group.

Anne-Marie Perks teaches digital art, illustration and animation at Buckinghamshire New University. She is also a published illustrator who is working on writing the stories she illustrates and serves as SCBWI's Regional Illustrator Coordinator for the British Isles.