04.DRAW SHAPES
WITH THE PEN TOOL
Giulio Rossi (www.behance.net/giuliorossi) is
a self-taught illustrator. His designs are clean
and sharp, often introducing quirky characters
with lots of expression. For him, the Photoshop
Pen tool is essential to his workflow. In fact, it is
one of the key tools that he uses in designing his
stylised work, mainly for creating vector shapes
within his illustrations. “I use the Pen tool to
create the basic shapes of my illustrations.
Starting from the initial sketch, I trace the edges
of the elements I want to keep separated from
the rest so I can work directly on them with the
brushes. It helps me be more clean and precise,
which is something I really enjoy when I include
geometric shapes into my portraits.”
© Giulio Rossi