Be bold in your drawing, painting, and illustration at Adobe MAX

Whether you’re a beginner looking to learn from creative experts or an experienced professional looking to discover new specialties, there are always new opportunities to get inspired. Take bold new strokes for drawing and painting — from fine art to anime, watercolors to photo collage, and logos to illustrations — and join the Drawing, Painting, and Illustration track this October at Adobe MAX 2022.

The sessions we offer in this track will help you foster ideas, inspiration, and skill-building. You’ll learn from leading digital artists and designers who’ll share their insights, secrets, and processes. You’ll also have the opportunity to meet creative experts such as professional illustrators, digital artists, 3D designers, graphic artists, creative directors, and art directors, in addition to people who are newer to the art world, like students and others still starting out in the world of digital illustration and painting.

If you’re interested in or specialize in the following, these sessions are for you:

• Art Direction or Creative Direction
• Education
• Graphic Design
• Illustration
• Print Design
• Web Design

Featured Products:

• Fresco
• Capture

Five must-attend sessions from this track to consider adding to your schedule once you’ve registered:

Moving from Traditional to Digital Illustration with Fresco with Andreas Preis (S6203)

Are you one of those illustrators who thinks their style can’t be fully replicated with digital tools? Berlin-based artist Andreas Preis was until he discovered Adobe Fresco on the iPad Pro. Join Andreas as he shares the different techniques that allowed him to fully translate his unique and original analog style into a digital format. Learn how he has transformed his work from using hundreds of traditional pens and materials to a single pencil and one app.

In this 60 minute session, you’ll explore:

• The original techniques that helped Andreas find his personal style
• Different ways to create that same look with Fresco
• How to streamline your workflow and even expand your possibilities as an artist

Express Yourself with Unique Lettering on Paper & with Fresco with Chris Campe (S6200)

Discover how to playfully experiment with established letterforms and create variations that express your own unique style and personality. Chris Campe, designer, author, and founder of Hamburg studio All Things Letters, will share how she uses analog and digital drawing tools, including Adobe Fresco, to alter letterforms in unexpected ways.

Join this inspiring 60-minute session and learn:

• The key parameters for altering letterforms
• How to generate ideas for interesting letterform variations
• How to use analog and digital drawing tools in unexpected ways

Discovering the Newest Drawing Features in Adobe Fresco with Kyle Webster (S6201)

Join Kyle T. Webster, Adobe senior design evangelist and official brush wizard, for an exploration of the newest Fresco features, including transformation modes, new animation features, time savers like reference layers and the Magic Wand tool, and much more. You're sure to walk away with a better understanding of how to use Fresco in your own drawing, painting and illustration work.

As Kyle guides you through the newest features in this 60-minute session, you’ll learn how to:

• Automatically create perspective grids from an imported image, layer, or your entire document with perspective grid capture
• Transform and add effects to your Fresco artwork with the Liquify tool
• Make quick selections based on color with the Magic Wand tool
• Control fade-in and fade-out effects easily with control opacity for motion frames
• Transform and move motion paths and frames

Sketch Walk and Drawing Class with Rob Generette (P6808)

Join award-winning illustrator Rob Generette on an inspiring sketch walk through LA’s Historic Theater district. You’ll collect architectural details, textures, colors, and graphics to use after lunch in a hands-on lab to build your own robot design with Adobe Fresco and Adobe Capture. You’ll leave with new creative skills, a fresh outlook on drawing and graphic design, and a print of your awesome art.

In this full day pre-conference course, you’ll learn how to:

• Think visually and design quickly and with confidence
• Use Capture and Creative Cloud Libraries to turn photos into color themes, vector elements, patterns, and brushes to use in Fresco
• Basic perspective techniques and how to use perspective grids in Fresco
• Add motion to your artwork and bring your creation to life

Learn to Draw and Animate Expressive Characters in Fresco with Voodoo Val (L6207)

Have you ever wanted to learn to illustrate characters with movement and personality? Then join illustrator, educator, and creative live streamer VooDoo Val in this follow-along iPad lab with a spooky twist. Val will guide you through an exploration of character design in which you’ll discover how to use the powerful new motion features in Adobe Fresco to enhance an illustrated character.

As Val shares her techniques for character design in this 60-minute session, you’ll learn how to:

• Draw and paint in a new style
• Convey emotion through facial expressions and body language
• Animate an illustrated scene

Already excited for everything you’ll have the chance to explore? So are we. Register for Adobe MAX 2022 (October 18-20) to unlock new ideas and grow your creativity and digital skills.