Learn how the right tools can help you express your creativity and create digital illustrations. In today's world where we enjoy constant visual stimulation, more and more brands are tapping creators to help them bring campaigns to life. Learn how you can use your design skills to turn heads and bring engagement to various initiatives. 

In this class Reyna will teach you how to:

• Tap into your unique creative energy. 
• Navigate a creative brief and client feedback. 
• Use the right tools to create illustrations you (and your clients) love.

SOFTWARE USED:

Surface Pro Adobe Photoshop

ABOUT REYNA:

Reyna Noriega is a Miami-based Black and Afro-Latina visual artist, author, and educator who works across a variety of mediums, from graphic design to painting, digital illustration, and photography. Through simplified shapes and forms in bold and vibrant shades, she portrays figures of people of color, architectural spaces, and landscapes. She helps women to create inclusive, forward-thinking businesses and brands and combines her visual art with writing. In 2019, she notably published a collection of poems entitled In Bloom.

Her multidisciplinary practice is devoted to highlighting and uplifting women and to helping them heal and find happiness. With layers of paint and pixels, Noriega offers a window into her life and those of all women, as she tells stories inspired by her culture and experiences, in which women can recognize themselves, feel represented, and empowered.

Noriega received her BA in Psychology from Florida International University, with minors in Art and English. Over the course of the next four years, she taught graphic design and visual arts in a public high school and developed her passion and ability to teach, motivate, and inspire. She further refined her skill set as a creative director, public and motivational speaker, before becoming a full-time illustrator in 2018.

Her clients include Apple, Google, Science Magazine, NYTimes, Old Navy, Microsoft, The New Yorker, and much more.