How to Illustrate like Kurzgesagt (In a Nutshell) | Illustrator Beginner Tutorial

My very first tutorial about Illustrating is finally there! ^^

Any questions left? Feel free to ask them on Discord:   / discord  


Also: If a member of Kurzgesagt happens to see this and doesn't like it, then please contact me and I'll take it down.

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Download the ZIP-file: https://www.mediafire.com/file/7kk2ub...

Video for setting up your workspace like me:    • Set up your Illustrator Workspace lik...  



Time Stamps:

1 Intro: 00:00

2 The basic shapes: 01:40

3 Adding the cactus: 07:22

4 Adding details (to the cactus) 09:43

5 Adding the spikes 19:20

6 Adding Light and Shadows: 29:09

7 Outro: 37:18


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Illustrator Shortcuts: https://www.killerkeys.com/adobe-illu...

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The "Kurzgesagt"-font: https://www.fontfabric.com/fonts/nexa/

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Music:

Most of the wunderful bg music:    / vexento  

Joey Fehrenbach - Indigo Road: https://joeyfehrenbach.com/track/indi...

The amazing outro song was a custom commission by Varexito:    / @varexitomusic  

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Kurzgesagt:

English channel:    / @kurzgesagt  

German channel:    / kurzgesagtde  

Spanish channel:    / @kurzgesagt_es  

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Source of knowledge:    • Illustration mit Philip Laibacher [KU...  

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My twitter:   / neightcat  

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A huge Thank You to all the amazing people who helped me making this video, and to you for watching it❤ Have a great day/night and keep creating! ^^