9AM PST - Designer Royale: Build a Brand in an Hour
Join Andrew Hochradel and VooDoo Val as they compete to create a brand from scratch in just one hour! Hang out, share your ideas, and watch the process unfold in real time!
10AM PST - Designer Royale: Design Detective
Join Andrew Hochradel and VooDoo Val as they compete to create a brand from scratch in just one hour! Hang out, share your ideas, and watch the process unfold in real time!
11AM PST - Designer Royale: Design Detective
Jess Goldsmith and Andrew Hochradel are solving a design mystery! Each of them will create a “design escape room” for their competitor by dropping pieces of a past project into a folder—no context, no explanations. The other will have to analyze the clues, piece things together, and try to recreate the final design.
12PM PST - Designer Royale: Character Creation
Illustrators Tyler Pate and VooDoo Val go head-to-head in a character design battle—with a twist! Their challenge? Bring an inanimate object to life. Watch as they turn everyday items into unique, personality-filled characters in real time.
1PM PST - Designer Royale: Poster Creation
Jess Goldsmith and Tyler Pate are going head-to-head in a poster design showdown! The catch? They don’t get to choose what they’re designing—the other person picks the product or item for them. Watch as they create bold, eye-catching designs in real time.
Andrew Hochradel is a freelance brand identity designer based in Southern California. https://www.instagram.com/hochdotco
VooDoo Val is a Creative Streamer & Community Moderator for Adobe Live based in Sacramento: https://www.behance.net/voodooval | https://www.instagram.com/voodoo.val
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00:00 Start
1:30 Today’s project
6:15 Branding type with Andrew
17:08 Logo tips
27:14 Blending tool tip
29:00 Creating a menu
31:00 Working in Adobe Express with Val
46:45 Adding animation in Adobe Express
1:01:05 Who is Jess?
1:01:30 Today’s project
1:12:00 Jess’ favorite tools
1:32:15 What is a meter limit
1:34:35 Star tool tips
1:45:00 Adding animation in Adobe Express
1:46:40 Reveal
1:49:57 Appearance panel graphic style
2:01:34 Tyler’s introduction, Val and Tyler’s sketches
2:04:26 Their Process going from sketch to illustration
2:09:30 Being your own worst critic, Tyler blocking in color
2:12:52 Val color and shading, how to improve
2:17:53 Tyler refining and adding face, redefining success, hoarding old work
2:24:04 Val and Tyler past streams, Val adding melting details, Tyler and Val’s plan for their illustrations
2:29:57 Taking on projects before you feel ready, Tyler using guides to create neapolitan ice cream
2:33:10 Val deciding on character and ice cream style, Tyler adding details to cookie
2:40:32 Art inspirations, Val planning out cookie details and skeleton
2:47:45 Skull details, moving cookie down to being held
2:51:31 Tyler final details, drippy face and ice cream, Color palette tips
3:01:25 Sketches and project overview, starting to illustrate over sketch
3:06:22 Tyler process for building jar and plan
3:08:16 Jess’ process and plan
3:11:51 Tyler choosing pug character sketches, illustrating over sketch
3:18:46 Jess adding dimension with gradients, creating toothpaste lines
3:24:42 Tyler choosing color, working on cream, Jess working glitter
3:30:21 Both adding type, and Jess adding tooth character
3:36:09 Tyler placing text on jar and adding speech bubbles to fill out composition
3:40:42 Jess filling out composition, adding speech bubbles and text
3:46:37 Art styles and inspiration Jess and tyler are interested in, Jess working on second illustration
01:12 Overview for today, teaching with Adobe Express statistics
05:32 Adobe Express UI overview and quick actions
08:50 Creating and working with classrooms