How to Emulate Illustration Styles in 5 Steps

Whether you’re a freelance designer/illustrator or working in a small studio, crafting illustrations in a range of styles to express a brand’s distinctive personality is highly invaluable.
At Farm Design, we enjoy creating thoughtful illustrations to support a brand’s unique story. Carol, designer and illustrator, is excited to share with you how she breaks down her tried-and-true formula on emulating illustration styles outside of her own. In this video, she demonstrates the 5-Step process through the illustrations created for the Bivouac Ciderworks packaging.
We understand that developing illustrations can be a daunting process, but we believe that it’s a skill that can be learned. The key takeaway here is to prepare the right tools that will guide you when crafting any illustration. We hope this video inspires illustrations on your next project!
Benefits of Adding Illustrations
02:22 Step 1: Audit your Inspiration
04:18 Step 2: Learn from Life
05:00 Step 3: Sketch your Thumbnails
06:00 Step 4: Make Quick Frankensteins
06:53 Step 5: Craft your Illustration
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I wonder why we don’t see videos from this channel, its so underrated 🥺

[@isukwithnames1811]

Great video! The intro was fun to watch and I learned a lot. The whole ”Frankenstein” concept is brilliant!

[@DoGoodWork]

Yea, the frankenstein is such a time saver and great way to come up with new ideas.

[@jaywalker.]

Everyone in your shop is a huge inspiration. Just what I needed to keep at it.💖

[@dianaingles3019]

Love seeing the process. Thanks for sharing!

[@Zombishnu]

amazing video, thank you! i feel like i learned more in this video than in two years of art school 😁

[@Fa6oomka94]

EXACTLY!

[@hebaal-khalidi6884]

thank you for sharing this, very helpful

[@kevinwarner959]

You are really good at what you do!

[@aryanambiar4058]

Mam thank you so much for providing such a valuable information. Now i got idea what all way we can collect and prepare sketch.

[@sandhyaravindran1087]

Amazing video production.

[@WorldinHead]

This is a video I was really looking for! Really nice intro and explanations. Learned what I needed. Please much more content about the illustration topic please! Thank you

[@happymojos2772]

Thank you very much love from Philippines!

[@ellisillustrations8327]

Thank you! Great process and beautiful work! 🧡

[@gabrielcameron]

This is absolute pure gold. Thank you!

[@kwna838]

Nice work

[@jakubjezovic]

Wow, you guys are so great! Thank you for this!

[@vaysum3527]

so helpful. i love your channel

[@godwin_njoroge]

This is so amazing to watch. Love your entire process! Learnt so much

[@dopekartistaddictionofart7837]

I was always bit confused when it comes to illustration and digital drawing the am still confused because I can't make out the difference between to my friend tells me to draw illustrations and what are draw he says these are not illustration or so I was bit confused though I really like how you dissect the whole process and divided in two elements and principles I will try to do this in my work as well hoping for some great works head also awesome video keep up the good work really helpful

[@jomape2700]

Very helpful thanks!!

[@nowakihadley2372]

It looks amazing, thank you for showing this !

[@nazirunnesa7230]

Thank you for helping me.

[@createbmx63]

Wowee, I was really feeling that intro. Good stuff as always yall!

[@dave3k]

That was amazing, more process videos please!!!

[@abubakarahmad8014]

Thank you so much for these tips.🧡

[@SrBz224]

Thank you so much for this video :) Hope you have or will create more interesting content like this one. Congrats!

[@andyzenz9260]

Great content. I just heard about your channel and loving it. This was such a unique look into the illustration process. Adding some new tools to sharpen my skills.

[@Mark-ql5ni]

Loved this! Thank you!

[@DoGoodWork]

So glad you enjoyed this episode.

[@jugglingfair]

Thank you so much for sharing it. Was helpful 👍

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Woow your content is so inspirational, your channel really deserves to have millions of subscribers.
You guys make great and awesome works :)

[@DoGoodWork]

Maybe someday. But for now, we are happy we have viewers, like you, who get value out of our content. :)

[@harshachauhan1019]

Oohhh gosh!! That was hell lot of tips in just one video 🥺🥺🥺 thank you 🥳
Much appreciative 👏👏👏

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Great video and info! Thanks for sharing 👍

[@killerbee8430]

thank you for this helpful video

[@kmullinsdesign]

Inspiring!

[@mandopacheco7097]

so good! thanks for the tips

[@graphicsamdw]

Thank you very much! This video was very helpful in my research about visual storytelling. Greetings from #Venezuela !!

[@robertvidaure6746]

I always flip a book into the air before opening it too! ^_^ Great stuff guys, keep up the great videos!

[@pouya_personal]

Perfect 👏

[@NIKARTIST89]

*Pretty good ! As an artist, I want to say to you that your video helps me*

[@jonathangonza]

Wow, awesome video. The artist is a super elegant presenter. I hope to see your growth as I saw the Futur's growth. Do good work! ✌️

[@odisseus23]

Amazing video!

[@unitbcreative]

I’m not an illustrator per se, but this was extremely helpful in terms of creating and in terms of project development. Thx!👍🏻

[@me_wick]

thank you for idea

[@saepuruyamano4766]

great!

[@SharonDeCaro]

Great to watch!!! How big is the drawing area on your tablet? Is it a Wacom brand? I'm looking to buy a new one.

[@jhonattancarvajal]

great video guys! How you balance or manage back and fort progress updates with your client to ensure your heading into the right direction?

[@TheAkadimia]

very informative

[@d.w.5894]

This is a really decent tutorial! Thank you! Is there a specific name for the style you've created there?

[@radart5575]

Can you explain which tools you used in photoshop to make it perfect or did you just use colour over the picture

[@emilysketcherland]

I love your videos! Do you plan to ever make more?

[@taufikakbar7316]

cakep.. :)

[@IsraelRomeroIsrox]

I love you Carol XD

[@sholoanagolpo5116]

You are a fine instructor but only few videos and that is also very short love to watch you more

[@mehmedtan404]

Does the designer have other projects, channel, bahance account?

[@tatianalopes3040]

Hello from Brazil. I really love your videos (the instructions, the soundtracks, everything). Thank you so much for the amazing content. I'm a designer too, but after watching these videos I've realized that I have too much to learn. ( ◜‿◝ )♡

[@mahmoudhassan6882]

why you stopped posting videos

[@mauriciolima1629]

You wasted so much time in the intro, you lost the retention.