Guided Course: Design Unique Prints with Your Own Illustrations
A guided course by Catalina Estrada Uribe , Illustrator and Print Designer
Joined June 2014
Create unique digital prints from your illustrations, mastering color techniques and pattern design.
Joined June 2014
Discover how to transform your personal illustrations into unique digital patterns with their own distinct visual identity. Start by transferring your hand-drawn or iPad sketches to your computer, preparing them for digital use. Learn to create custom brushes that will streamline the creative process, allowing you to experiment with shapes and textures in innovative ways. Explore color palette creation and recoloring techniques that add depth and variety to your designs, making each pattern a unique work of art.
Develop your own continuous prints from your original illustrations, creating compositions full of chromatic rhythm and visual essence. Generate multiple color variations of each pattern, adding versatility to your collection. By the end, you'll have a complete series of patterns ready to apply to digital or physical products, from fabrics to stationery. As you progress, you'll discover how each choice of color and shape becomes an essential part of your personal style, adding an authentic touch to every design.
What will you learn in this online course?
5 lessons & 10 downloads
- 96 students
- 5 lessons (36m)
- 10 downloads
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, German, English, French, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch · Turkish · Romanian · Indonesian
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Transform your illustrations into a collection of digital patterns with a distinct visual identity. Learn how to transfer drawings to your computer, create custom brushes, build color palettes, design continuous patterns, and apply color variations to enrich your designs.
Who is this online course for?
Designed for illustrators and designers who want to transform drawings into digital patterns with a distinct visual identity. Ideal for those who wish to experiment with color palettes, create unique digital brushes, and explore recoloring techniques to enrich their creative projects with depth and variety.
Requirements and materials
To start designing original prints, you'll need a computer, an iPad, a digital stylus, and a sketchbook. Extensive prior knowledge isn't required, but basic digital drawing skills and familiarity with design software are helpful.
Catalina Estrada Uribe
A guided course by Catalina Estrada Uribe
Catalina Estrada is a renowned Colombian illustrator, based in Barcelona and specialized in pattern design. Her particular visual language of evocative patterns, inspired by nature with organic shapes and vivid colors, has led Catalina to make a niche for herself among the great icons and masters of illustration.
She has worked as an illustrator in advertising for major brands such as Camper, Nike, Font Vella, and Coca-Cola, among others, as well as for institutional campaigns, organizations such as UNICEF, Amnesty International, and Arrels, and other clients with a diverse range objectives.
Catalina also collaborates as a volunteer on social projects, doing her bit to improve the environment and people's lives. These projects allow her to blaze new graphic trails and expand her way of working.
Content
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Guided Course: Design Unique Prints with Your Own Illustrations
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Podcast: Patterns with soul, when design tells stories
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Transfer the illustrations from the iPad and the notebook to the computer and then start creating the brushes
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Creating color palettes and recoloring
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To create prints
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Color versions
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Final project
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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Learn at your own pace
Enjoy learning from home without a set schedule and with an easy-to-follow method. You set your own pace.
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Learn from the best professionals
Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
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Meet expert teachers
Each expert teaches what they do best, with clear guidelines, true passion, and professional insight in every lesson.
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Certificates
PlusIf you're a Plus member, get a custom certificate signed by your teacher for every course. Share it on your portfolio, social media, or wherever you like.
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Get front-row seats
Videos of the highest quality, so you don't miss a single detail. With unlimited access, you can watch them as many times as you need to perfect your technique.
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Share knowledge and ideas
Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.
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Connect with a global creative community
The community is home to millions of people from around the world who are curious and passionate about exploring and expressing their creativity.
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Watch professionally produced courses
Domestika curates its teacher roster and produces every course in-house to ensure a high-quality online learning experience.
FAQs
What are Domestika's online courses?
Domestika courses are online classes that allow you to learn new skills and create incredible projects. All our courses include the opportunity to share your work with other students and/or teachers, creating an active learning community. We offer different formats:
Original Courses: Complete classes that combine videos, texts, and educational materials to complete a specific project from start to finish.
Basics Courses: Specialized training where you master specific software tools step by step.
Specialization Courses: Learning paths with various expert teachers on the same topic, perfect for becoming a specialist by learning from different approaches.
Guided Courses: Practical experiences ideal for directly acquiring specific skills.
Intensive Courses (Deep Dives): New creative processes based on artificial intelligence tools in an accessible format for in-depth and dynamic understanding.
When do the guided courses start and when do they finish?
All guided courses are 100% online, so once they're published, guided courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
What do Domestika's guided courses include?
The guided courses are divided into different modules. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with other students, as well as share your work and your final project, creating a community around the guided courses.
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