Digital Drawing & Illustration-2
This course builds advanced digital drawing and layout skills using Canva and Adobe InDesign. Students learn to combine hand-drawn artwork, images, typography, color, and motion to create cohesive brand-based design systems. The course emphasizes practical design workflows for print and digital media, focusing on visual consistency, creative image usage, and professional presentation.
- Create cohesive digital designs using Canva and InDesign.
- Digitize and enhance hand-drawn artwork for professional use.
- Apply color, typography, layout, and imagery effectively across multiple formats.
- Design print-ready and screen-based layouts with correct technical settings.
- Develop consistent brand visuals across static and animated outputs.
The whole semester.
- 01Introduction to Design, Canva, Interface and Templates
- 02Design Elements, Guides, Layouts, Page Setup
- 03Colors & Color Palettes
- 04Working with Text
- 05Working with Images (Backgrounds, Filters, Image Editing)
- 06Digitizing Hand-Drawn Artwork, Image editing and cropping
- 07Elements, Icons & Shapes, Drawing Tools
- 08 · MidtermMockups, Frames
- 09Combining Illustrations with Images and design element
- 10Brochure Design, Layouting for print, bleed and guides
- 11Presentation Design and Brand Books
- 12Animations in Canva
- 13Introduction to Indesign, Interface, Layout, Page Setup, Guides
- 14Working with Text & Images in Indesign
- 15Colors, Master pages, Page Numbering, Spreads, Layouts, Layers, Alignment in inDesign
- 16Compiling pages (for printing) of a book/magazine in Indesign, designed in another software/Canva
Midterm around session 8. Final project briefed at session 8 or 9 and developed in stages until the juries.
Final Project Deliverables
Choose one service-based brand, and create the following deliverables for it.
1 brand design guideline book
Pages: 12-15 pages + 2(front and back covers)
Size: A5 (8.3x5.8in) landscape
Description: Rebrand the brand assigned to you and create a brand book of design/visual language
1 company profile book
Pages: 20 + 2 (front and back covers)
Size: A4
Description: Design a company profile book. It can contain the following (you may decide information type based on your brand).
All pages MUST include images/illustrations. Each page must include edited images combined with various design elements. All pages will be assessed based on the creative use of images and elements.
1 trifold brochure
Size: A4 (open)
Description
Brochure must be created for the purpose of recruiting volunteers or interns for a specific program or to advertise an event hosted by the organization.
1 video ad
Duration: 15-30 seconds
Size: 1080x1920 (9:16 reel ad size)
Description
Create an ad using animations on Canva, either to ask for donations, or for volunteer program.
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All deliverables must follow the same design language, as defined in your brand book.
Project to be create in Canva/Indesign.
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