@@jennynb42 thank you for your comment! I’ve got a few ideas for more BTS type videos. Stay tuned!

@@alevak09 thanks for the comment, and for the question. I know it’s always kind of a bummer when colors look washed out. I’ve had that issue before and need to have a think on how to best walk someone through it. As for converting Hex and RGB colors to CMYK, when I get to the color section of this video I mention Adobe Color. When you choose colors with Adobe Color, it will show you the Hex, RGB, HSB, Lab, and CMYK equivalent. From there you would convert the CMYK color to Pantone inside of Illustrator. I recently made a video showing how to convert CMYK to Pantone colors in this video that you can check out in the meantime!: Convert CMYK or RGB to Pantone Colors | Illustrator 2024 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNuYrJOpmt-7aIU.html

Thanks for checking it out! I'm so glad to hear that you found it helpful! 😄

@@IrisKauffman-s5h my pleasure! I’m glad you found it helpful! 😊

@@ThevVMarcusrsVv thank you for the kind words and support! 👍

@@bananenschil1234 ah thank you so much! I wish it had 100k views too! But as long as I can help even one or two people make a positive change in their careers or lives I’m happy 😊

@@saifulislamniloy1107 yes, HUION tablets are compatible with Mac computers running OS 10.12 or later, including those with silicon processors.

@@EricVasquezDesign Thank you for the confirmation. I was not getting any info about this anywhere.

@@zerostarwork my pleasure! I’m so glad you found it to be helpful! 😃

I’m sorry to hear that. Whether or not you want to continue is of course entirely up to you, but if it were me I wouldn’t quit. The truth is that there are a lot of avenues and industries within Graphic Design, and just because AI has disrupted a lot of creative fields doesn’t mean that there is no longer a need for people who know how to design. Take the camera for example. Many of us have iPhones or Android devices that are very capable of taking great photos and videos, and while it may have caused some people to stop pursuing photography or film as an art form, there are still plenty of creative folks who can make a living teaching or working in both of these areas. Just my opinion based on my own experience, but ultimately the decision is up to you.

you did well. I have a branding company and clients are just not calling us nor our competition. clients are generating these really bad pictures and videos and calling it a day. they never cared about quality and they never will. you made a smart choice. now its time for us to shift our company to do something else.

Thank you so much Stephanie! I hope you found it helpful! 😊

That’s awesome! I agree the Huion tablets are really great 👍

My pleasure!

Thanks so much for the kind words! I’m glad you found it to be eye opening! 👀 🙏😊

Thank you for your comment and for sharing your thoughts on this topic. While I understand where you may be coming from - yes, AI can create these things, it’s doing so based on the plagiarized sum of work created by others. When we look at AI generated art, we can see that something is a little bit ‘off’ because of overly smoothed out images, or people with ten fingers on each hand that look like they are melting 🫠 but what AI can’t do is create something new and original because it’s generating images based off of the data it has scraped online. AI can’t understand the nuances of human emotions. AI can’t make revisions to a piece of art the way that a human can. AI might save people money, but it lacks soul, originality, and the ability to interpret complex emotions the way that an artist can. In addition to all of this, there are of course the moral and legal implications of using AI generated art for commercial purposes. Several of the agencies that I have personally worked with over the past year or so have said that AI can be used for mood boards or reference, but they don’t want anything that has been AI generated in the final artwork. In one case I actually had to rebuild a design that someone used AI to create for this very reason. These are some of the reasons I have to respectfully disagree. I believe humans gravitate towards, and recognize genuine art that was created with thoughtfulness and passion. And while AI may be a helpful tool, I don’t believe it will replace artists.

@@EricVasquezDesign Let me address your points one by one because I feel they are willfully ignorant and further encourage us to bury our heads in the sand regarding this issue instead of addressing it. AI art looks or sounds weird. Well in some cases yes, in others it is completely convincing. It’s only in its infancy, it will get better rapidly and unless there is some unforeseen road block it will be completely indistinguishable from human made art. This is already happening. AI can’t create something new band original because it’s generating images based off of the data scraped online. Yes this is quite literally what humans do. We engage with things over time which creates an artistic language that is an amalgam of our influences. Again, the larger the dataset for AI (which is getting larger everyday) the better it will get at this. Furthermore, let’s be honest, most human-created art isn’t particularly interested in originality (nor should it be). Far more art exists within a preexisting framework. Pop music for example, is mostly songs 3-4 minutes long, in a major key, uses the I, V, vi, and IV chords, and uses a verse-chorus structure. It’s pretty rare fro a pop song to break the mold in any way. AI can’t understand the nuances of human emotion. It doesn’t need to, it needs to create an impression that it does. AI doesn’t need to understand anything. And again, most human art doesn’t represent a deep and nuanced understanding of human emotion. Intentionality is extremely difficult to determine with any veracity just by experiencing the art work itself. Once again and let me hammer this home, AI just needs to create something convincing which it already does and will only get better at. Agencies not using it. This can only last so long. Workers cost money, if you run a business full of humans and you’re trying to compete with companies that use AI instead, you will lose that battle every time. You cannot compete with prices that result from an AI workforce long-term. It’s possible that AI won’t replace artists, I hope that’s true but the only reason it won’t is if humans collectively decide not to use it in art creation and avoid consuming art made with it. The quality of AI-generated material will not be a barrier if it continues at the pace it's going now. All this nonsense about our unique soul etc is so absent of any concrete analysis and constitutes wishful thinking. Please do better because this is serious. BTW, graphic designers are already losing jobs and being replaced by AIs trained on their work. Actual resistance is the only way to deal with this, not sitting on youtube and saying ‘nah I actually think it’s fine cause people have soul, machine no have soul’.

@@endah08 Thank you for your input and for sharing your opinions on this. It sounds like you know a lot about AI, and that's great. I never claimed to be an expert in AI, I am only an expert in Graphic Design. I am in no way recommending that anybody ignore what is happening or bury their heads in their sand. This video is just about what my experience has been like using AI and what I have seen in working with companies who are creating commercial artwork. I would be curious to know what your experience has been like working as a professional designer with some of these companies? At the end of the day, there will always be people who don't value art, and for them, maybe AI is the answer. I also believe that we need to acknowledge that there are also people who value human-generated art and what it means as a form of expression in the world. Is the answer to stop educating people about how to create art? No. I don't think the answer is to just stop and give up because AI is coming. There is still a lot of value in learning about art, design, and how it can be used in myriad ways from giving people ways to express themselves to trying to share their artwork and make a living from it. Just because we have cameras in our pockets that can do a great job of taking photos and videos doesn't mean that people no longer care about photography and videography. There are tons of people out there still teaching these subjects, and those who are paid to do it despite the fact that it can be done for less. I do like what you have said about collective resistance, and I hope to hear more about your ideas on how we can do that. I have seen the new Cara social media platform where artists are able to showcase their work with protection against AI, and I am hopeful that more platforms like this will start popping up.

​@@EricVasquezDesign i respect u for many things but mostly because u did not step down to his level of unethical ways of communicating his opinion, am a senior graphic designer who is depressed because of all that am seeing about Ai, i invested a lot of money to start my design agency only to be stomped by the AI scary progress, i feel like its pointless to keep pursuing this path since in few years the services i provide will be invaluable to most people, am confident of my work its just that there is no way am beating an artificial intelligence, i really wish people and governments put an end to this, people who work on developing these Ai models are poisoning the society and bringing an end to their careers and other people careers, when did anyone ever complain about creative works? when did anyone want it taken away? we wanted boring labour jobs to be taken by Ai not art, its very sad seeing what people are willing to do for momentary gains, lacking the intelligence and vision to see the outcome of such creations on the future of human society, anyways i appreciate ur positive view on this, i really hope these companies get harshly punished for all the illegal copywrite infringements they are committing against artists.

Thank you so much for your comment! I totally understand that everyone learns at a different pace. What I will usually do is pause or replay the part I need to rewatch or use KZfaqs new speed controls to watch the video at a slower speed. I also have this completed mockup for sale in my Gumroad shop for $2-3 if you would like to go that route. Hope this helps!

My pleasure! Glad it was helpful! 😊

Thanks for the kind words! I have been working as a professional key art / poster designer for TV and Film for about 15 years now. I have created a lot of posters for television shows (scripted and unscripted), movies, festivals, broadway, sports, and podcasts/audio books.

Thanks for the comment and for checking out the video! Colors are very much subjective, but I hear where you’re coming from. Thanks again and good luck with your studies!

Ah wow, thank you so much! I’m so glad that you found the video helpful and thank you for your comment and sub! I really appreciate it 😊

@@EricVasquezDesign I'm a small creator myself (although I use IG the most) so I know how much the follows and likes and comments mean! But also I really wanted to express how absolutely perfectly happy I am with this one! I absolutely never follow anyone through a tutorial here so it's something to comment on. Not to mention how you saved me yesterday when I had to match the Pantones on a packaging and suddenly the trusty Pantone books weren't there 😥

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you for your comments! I am glad you enjoyed the video and I appreciate the input!

Thanks so much!

Thank you! 🙏

No prob! Glad it helped!

This sounds like it may be a setting or preference issue where auto update is turned off to avoid overwriting older versions of Illustrator. If you install the 27.0 version, you should be able to re-enable the auto update setting in the CC app, or you can do a manual update later on. Hope this helps!

@@EricVasquezDesign Ok thank you 🙏 Just needed some direction. Will check my settings (:

Once you are in the Applications folder you have to go to Adobe Illustrator and choose the ‘Presets’ folder. From there you can go to en US > Swatches > Color Books. Hope this helps!

Glad it was helpful! 😊

Happy to help!

The latest version of Illustrator? They have phased Pantone colors out of the recent versions of the Adobe programs.

I have the latest version 2024 and, the box doesn´t appear when you use the rectangle tool.

Glad it helped!

Thanks for your comment Carla! Great question. Personally, I haven’t felt like the surface is too slippery on this Huion tablet. I think it might be a preference thing, but they do make screen covers for some of these that can give the tablet a more paper like feel. I have something like that for my iPad which does give a more natural feel, so that could be an option if you were wanting to replicate that feeling with a drawing tablet.

My pleasure! 👍

Oh wow, may I ask what industry or type of company it was that let their team go?

@@EricVasquezDesign don't know the industry or type of company, but 1 of them is someone a friend of mine knows, he went to check up on him just a few minutes ago, suddenly college degree turned pretty much useless

@@blizzyrat4738 oof. That is a tough spot for sure. I’m very sorry to hear about that. I know it’s hard for a lot of recent grads and also more seasoned creatives right now, but I hope your friend will keep their head up! I would tell them to try reaching out to creative placement agencies as they tend to have a lot of temp work.

My pleasure! Glad it was helpful for you!