Igor is a Toronto-based Product Designer with more than 12 years of experience in UX/UI design, illustration and animation. He is currently busy with his pet project Uelco (an app for onboarding new hires). Igor is fond of traveling, skydiving and craft beer. Check out his Dribbble and Twitter accounts.
Illustration is a great way to boost many of your skills and to experiment with drawing techniques, colors and composition. In this article, Igor Izhik will show you how these skills will make you a better specialist in any creative field by sharing how he approaches all stages of the illustration process and providing general techniques for creating vector illustrations in Adobe Illustrator. Just remember that a solid illustration requires patience and is rarely done quickly. The good news is that it pays off. Let’s take a closer look at it and see how it was made.
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Every professional has a comfort zone. The first sign you’re in it is when you see no challenge on the horizon. You know pretty much everything you need to perform well, and if anything unfamiliar comes your way it can be solved fairly quickly. It can take a while to realize you’ve stopped moving, and working on freelance projects seems like the only way to keep your brain busy. Do you have a dream project, application, big or small idea? You can do it. You just need to start.
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