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Adobe Live from Munich
Hallowe'en Special! 
Watch as I create 3 ready-to-share Hallowe'en cards: 1, using artwork created on ink and paper, with additional organic elements made in Adobe Fresco; 2, using only imagery and textures sourced from stock, and 3, a combination of both existing artwork, stock and fonts. On from 58:00.
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In this session I include, among many other things:

- using Fresco's live brushes to make beautiful, bleeding 'robot ink' backgrounds and textures

- deploying simple layer blends to create atmospheric effects

- the usefulness of Express's 'remove background' feature - and when to go long-hand!

- easy colour changes and palettes  in Express

- saving and exporting finished cards

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Adobe Live from Munich
Creating promotional assets for the promotion of a new book, using Adobe Fresco and Express
Still deep in promotion for my recently-published book collaboration - a collection of illustrated short horror stories for kids - I used this session to demonstrate the creation of social posts and a little animation. I’ve included the whole session, but fast-forward to 1:24 if you want to go straight to me!
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In this session I include:

- taking an existing vector illustration made in Fresco and animating to to make a shareable GIF

- hand-lettering a horror-esque shoutline in Fresco using gnarly brushes

- using illustrations from the book with the lettering I made to put together an Instagram post in Express​​​

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Adobe Live with Sarah Coleman: Christmas Wrapping Paper

Mid-century inspired brushwork giftwrap - done digitally

Inspired by my own brush pen illustrations and the fantastic mid-century explosion of bold design and colour in textiles and paper goods, I make a repeat pattern entirely in Photoshop.

 

In this session I include:

- drawing with Kyle Webster's brushes, to simulate my 'IRL' pens

- research into specific design eras

- layering up

- repeat patters 'the long-hand way'

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Adobe Live Book Club with Sarah Coleman: Historic Eras

Only If You Dare - 1963-style!

In Part II of the Historical Eras series, I created a cover for a book I've done in real life - but I went back in time to be inspired by the textiles, wallpapers and book designs of the early 60s!

 

In this session I include:

- drawing with Kyle Webster's brushes, to simulate my 'IRL' pens

- research into specific book design eras

- layering up

- using Adobe Stock to create paper backgrounds

See the finished cover

Adobe Live Book Club with Sarah Coleman: Historic Eras

DRACULA!

Looking at historic styles and periods in book design, I create a cover for Bram Stoker's Dracula which pays homage to the ornate, beautiful cloth and leather-bound editions of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

 

In this session I include:

- drawing with the symmetry tool

- simulating a 6mm parallel ink pen

- gothic lettering from scratch

- deploying Adobe Stock and Adobe Fonts

historic and geographical inspirations

- making marbled endpapers, 100% digitally!

See the finished cover

Adobe Masterclass with Sarah Coleman

FAN ART! 'Dark': The Novel

In a 'Brush'-centric special I created this bit of fan art: the book of the Netflix series Dark.

 

In this session I include:

 

- setting up a template for a real book cover

- drawing with the symmetry tool

- time-lapses of ink creation

- integrating organic hand-made elements

- using layer styles to create atmosphere

- making and tweaking bespoke brushes

and their settings

- synthesising analogue fountain

and other pens with digital brushes

See the finished cover

Adobe Live Book Club x Sarah Coleman

Creating a book cover in an hour - from scratch, using ink elements and Photoshop, chosen by last week’s audience.

 

In this session I integrate:

- using layer styles to create textures

- adding scruffy hand-lettering via vectorisation

- using Kyle Webster’s brushes

- using the content-aware tool

- Enjoy the session!

‘A Scanner Darkly’ by Philip K. Dick

See the finished cover

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The Fall of the House of Usher’ by Edgar Allen Poe

Each session starts with a look at previous versions of the cover, and for this one there are many. In this session I do the front and the back of this cover, suggested by last week’s audience

 

This session includes:

- choosing and using licenced Adobe Stock

- layers tyles and textures

- using the mirror drawing tool to create 

a symmetrical image

- making my own brushes from original art

- layer discipline and modifying brushes

See the finished cover

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‘The Institute’ by Stephen King

Creating a book cover in an hour - from scratch! The first of four the sessions saw me create a book cover from scratch using sketches, ink elements and Photoshop. 

 

In this session I include:

 

- setting up a template for a real book cover

- a brief look into my workflow

- time-lapses of ink creation

- integrating organic hand-made elements

- using layer styles to create atmosphere

See the finished cover

‘The Omen’ (novelisation of the film)

Adobe Live Book Club x Sarah Coleman

This was never actually a book - it was a film first, which was novelised later, and thus had no real ‘cover’ precedent. I wanted to get away from the cliches that have gathered around ‘The Omen’

 

In this one I demonstrate the creation of a very organic woodcut-inspired look: Along the way I look at:

- Kyle’s pencil, fountain pen and chalk brushes

- creating brushes from a Photoshop sketch

- why I ‘colour in’ rather than ‘fill’

- ‘dialing down’ on the sophistication

- and we discuss the real identity of the Antichrist!

See the finished cover

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