Having explored the work styles and approaches, Yaroslava says that with long-term practice, both traditional and digital artists work out their own routine and the number of creative stages. In this post, she shares her process which mostly has 5 steps. Here it’s presented by the example of her fresh artwork reflecting the theme of the Winter Olympic Games.

Stage 1: Sketching by Hand

The first stage is devoted to the search of composition, dimensions, characters and their interactions. It is done by hand sketching. If this sketch isn’t going to be shown to clients, don’t try to go deep into all the details – strive for the level of fidelity clear for you personally and save the ideas.

Stage 2: Turning a Traditional Sketch into Digital

The second stage transforms the idea from traditional to digital drawing. Yaroslava uses the scanned or photographed sketch as a base in the Adobe Illustrator. Then she starts to outline the sketch using Pen Tool if lines are strict and Curvative Tool in case of smooth lines. At this stage, she draws the main dimensions without details as well as moves bodies and structures in search of a nice composition. This is the phase when the frame of the illustration is created.

Stage 3: Color Choice

The third stage is all about color. The designer has to make the decision about color palette and combinations. In this particular illustration, the choice was not so hard: she decided to apply the colors of the symbolic Olympic rings. Each of them was used as the basis for a particular ring with the character inscribed into it.

Stage 4: Dimensions and Details

The next stage is devoted to working out details and adding volume. The dimensions and shapes are getting clearer and sharper.

Stage 5. Textures and Dynamics

At the final stage, the designer adds the textures. They breathe in life into the visual images. In this illustration, textures allowed for setting the effect of speed, dynamics as well as visual prompts of the winter season.

In most cases, the designer adds textures with masks. She creates a mask and copies there a black-and-white gradient of the element to which the texture is applied. Then she applies the Grain effect. The other variant is painting inside the mask with the texture brush of white, black or gray color depending on the needed effect.

In the end, she scales the illustration, makes a reflection for the holistic view and adds small alterations if they are needed. The illustration is ready!

Final Tip

During the illustration process, the designer follows the principle to cover all the illustration at every particular stage. All the parts of illustration have to be equally worked-out at the level required by the specific stage before moving to the next step. This approach helps to avoid the situation when some parts are developed in the slightest details while the others feature the lack of patience and persistence. Harmony and consistency are the artist’s best friends.

Check the earlier article to see more illustrations by Yaroslava and read a bunch of useful tips for graphic designers.

Useful Case Studies

For graphic designers interested to see more practical case studies with creative flows, we have collected the set of articles.

Moonworkers. Digital Illustrations on Film Production
Quisine. Branding Design for Food Delivery Service
Dicey. Logo and Mascot Design for Party Game
MYWONY. Storytelling with Brand Intro Design
Florence App. Illustrations for Healthcare Service
Tubik in Paris. Design Process for Narrative Illustration
LunnScape. Identity Design for a Landscape Company
Binned. Brand Identity Design for Cleaning Service
Reborn. Identity Design for a Restaurant
Andre. Corporate Branding Design for Landscape Firm

Originally published in Tubik Blog

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So, today the D4U inspiration set is collected at the crossroads of graphics and motion design to feature awesomely animated illustrations. Some of them were designed as a part of video production whereas others support interactions or positive user experience on apps or websites. Enjoy a variety of styles, details, colors, and plots.

By Tubik

By Artua

By Jonas Mosesson

By Tubik

By Gal Shir

By BluBlu Studios

By Glenn Thomas

By Maria Keller

By Jonathan Dahl

By Radio

By Jonan Mosesson

By Animagic Studios

By Guillaume Kurkdjian

By Gal Shir

By Glenn Thomas

By Down the Street Designs

By FANTASY

By Icons8

By Down the Street Designs

By Tubik

To read more on the topic and review other examples, check out the following articles:

UI as Art: Illustration in Interfaces

Benefits and Pitfalls of Promo Videos for Web

Step by Step Guide to Custom Promo Video Design

Design Process: How to Create Illustrations for IT Blog or Landing Page

Design Case Study: Binned. Promo Video Production

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By Mioe Studio

By Mioe Studio

By Mioe Studio

By RADIO

By RADIO

By RADIO

By Cub Studio

By Cub Studio

By Cub Studio

By Cub Studio

By Cub Studio

By Cub Studio

Title illustration by RADIO

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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose – it teaches you about life. (Billie Jean King)

Sports has become a part of our routine a long time ago. Even more, today a healthy lifestyle is a top trend that constantly grows its popularity across the world.

Fitness apps are the key helpers for people who strive to get fit. Their functionality gives a lot of opportunities and makes keeping fit easier. Understanding the significant impact of these applications on users’ everyday life, designers do their best to activate the problem-solving potential of fitness apps. Today’s article describes common screens and essential UI elements for fitness apps.

Sports App Interactions

Sign-in and Profile Screen

Fitness app is something like a pocket instructor telling you what to do and gives feedback on your achievements. To make it more comfortable and personalized, designers need to create an effective profile UI.

Before users obtain their profiles they usually go through the sign-in process. Fitness apps, as well as the other ones, can allow logging in via social networks still there are some aspects that users have to fill in to create a personalized profile. The applications usually require personal data including age, gender, weight, and height which helps to define users’ physical condition. Profile creation is often similar to filling in an application form. This way users can easily provide the needed information to make a profile more personalized.

The major objective of a fitness app is to help users in their self-improvement, the reason why profiles should contain not only the personal data but also the user’s achievements such as the number of burnt calories or personal records in sports. It’s important not to overload the profile screen with the unnecessary information otherwise user interface may look chaotic.

Home Screen

It’s a core element for any type of apps. Home screens serve as the main point where users start the journey within a product. Creating UI for home screen designers need to think of it as a center of navigation and make sure users will be able to operate it easily.

First of all, the home screen should provide access to the other parts of the app. Designers can choose various ways of the presentation from a sidebar with minimalistic icons to the clickable subheaders leading to the different sections of app content. The choice often depends on the number of features provided by the product as well as the platform which it is meant for.

Activity Screen

People who aim at getting fit always have to do various physical activities. Fitness apps provide users with the feature which helps to track how active they are during a day. To make a sufficient UI for activity screen, designers include different kinds of activities and sports. Traditionally, fitness apps provide tracking time spent on sports as well as measuring the distance which users cover during a day. The distance can be calculated in two ways: walking is measured by the number of steps and running is usually measured in miles (kilometers).

The information about users’ activity is often presented via diagrams of various forms. Such presentation contributes to the effective visual perception of the data which includes many numerals. Also, designers often apply custom icons representing each kind of activity. This way the screen looks clean and neat even if users have a really active life.

Fitness App

Heart Rate Screen

The heart is an engine which lets our body live and function, so it’s important to follow its condition daily. Many fitness apps can be connected to the various devices such as fitness wearables which allow measuring pulse. The applications usually transfer the data gathered with devices on a heart rate screen.

User interface representing the feature should be simple with the minimum of elements so that it could be easily operated. Since the process of pulse measuring takes some time it may be a good idea to supply the UI with sufficient animation which will show the loading process. For example, motion designers can animate an illustration of the heart showing it beats. Custom illustrations along with motion design can make UI look more proficient and make the process of the pulse measuring more interactive.

Sleep Tracking Screen

Nice sleep is a guarantee of the human health. Sportspeople know it better than anyone else and always try to control the time and quality of their sleep. Fitness apps show the gathered information during a night which includes the time and stages of sleep. There are four stages of sleep: the first and the second are called light sleep, the third is deep sleep and the fourth is rem sleep. The applications track these stages and in the morning users can see the statistics. The data on sleep is often shown as graphs.

Calories Screen

They say that fitness people are obsessed with calories. Well, there is truth in the words because if you want to get fit it’s vital to control what and how much you eat. As we said above, fitness applications show the information on the number of burnt calories based on the activity results. The calories data can be displayed on the activity screen as well as on the personal profile. However, it may be an effective solution to create a separate screen to provide users with the expanded information on the lost calories.

Sports App

Progress Screen

To stay motivated and continue self-improvement, it’s important to know that the hard work gives results. The progress screen shows the statistics about users achievements along with failures. Here the graphs will be the best choice. If people have the progress, they see that their results are getting better and the scales on the graphs go higher.

Schedule Screen

There can be many sports activities in different time and different places so the schedule seems to be essential in this situation. The screen of schedule is standardized, but to make it unique and original, designers can add some interesting icons representing various sports directions.

Goals Screen

Goals move us to achieve more and more, especially if we talk about fitness. People start doing sport because they have some goals like losing weight or shaping up. In fitness applications, users set maybe a bit less radical goals but easier to achieve on a regular basis. They often include walking a certain number of steps per day or week along with burning the fixed amount of calories.

The screen of goals can be presented as a sheet divided into categories: to do, doing, done. This way users will see how much they have managed to achieve and what they need to strive for. In addition, designers can settle the system of awards which will help users be even more motivated. We’ve already described awards as effective gamification tools which contribute increasing user engagement. You can find detailed info in our previous articles.

BeBright App

The sport requires persistence and fortitude and so does the creation of sufficient UI design. Learn the basics, add some inspiration and you can surprise yourself. Stay tuned!

Recommended Reading

If you want to learn more about common screens for various mobile apps, here is the list of helpful articles revealing tips on mobile UI design and its components.

Mobile UI Design: 15 Basic Types of Screens

Feel the Beat. UI Design for Music Streaming Services

Spectacular Design. Elements of Cinema App UI

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“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” Heywood Broun

Modern culture stands for a healthy lifestyle, so sports have become an inseparable part of life for many of us. The young and old do various sports to stay healthy and the digital technology industry does its best to help and motivate them even more. Fitness wearables and applications are meant to give sportspeople new opportunities assisting them to be more effective as well as providing them an essential information on their progress.

Understanding the role of fitness apps, designers try to deliver problem-solving products which will make the process of getting fit pleasant and easy. The effective UI design is crucial for fitness applications since sportspeople always need quick access to the features and don’t have time to figure out complicated functionality. Today’s D4U post shows the collection of UI designs for fitness apps presenting sufficient interaction solutions. Get inspired!

Bytubik

By Virgil Pana

By tubik

By Aleks

By Renat Muratshin

By George Vasyagin

By tubik

By Ramotion

By Virgil Pana

By Johny vino

By Eduard

By Kamil Janus

By Sergey Jani

By Kostya Vargatiuk

By Thomas Budiman

By Bojan Mesar

By Cuberto

By Michał Roszyk

By Michał Roszyk

By Giga Tamarashvili

By Ramotion

By Afrian Hanafi

By Lina Lysenko

By Johny vino

By Ionut Zamfir

By Christine Soules

By Ranjith Alingal

By SELECTO

By KREATIVA Studio

By Nick

Welcome to read more what interfaces for fitness apps include in the article UI Design for Fitness Apps

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Famous tennis player Roger Federer once said: “When I think of the Olympics, I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too“, in that way expressing personal experience echoing the experience of many others. Olympics unite people all over the world, and this massive collective energy transforms into diverse and often stunning artistic forms.

Today, we have decided to start our exploration of the issue of design for the Olympics with a collection of diverse digital art presentations made by designers from different corners of the world. Although the shots present various design approaches, styles, and techniques, what they do have in common is that they all were inspired by the theme of the Olympic Games in Rio, which is in full play at the moment. So, ready, steady, go!

Official logo design of Rio 2016 by Tátil Design de Ideias

Rio 2016 by TUBIK

ADWEEK Infographic by Steve Wolf

Rio Olympics 2016 by RADIO

NBC Olympics Rio 2016 // Trollbäck + Company by Mitch Monson

Google doodles Rio 2016 by Leo Natsume

Rio 2016: BBc´s Olympic by Rafael Martin C.

Rio 2016 by spovv

Artwork – Olympic Games Rio 2016 by José Augusto Hykavy

Medal Moves by Tomasz Usyk

Stay tuned, guys! The next posts will unveil more about the history of design for the Olympics in particular and sports in general. New design stories and collections are coming soon!

For more inspiration, check the sets of other posts from our D4U Gallery, where we gather impressive creatives to share their art with you, for example:

• people illustration gallery
• urban art illustrations
• Procreate illustration tutorials
• logo animation examples
• realistic 3D portraits
• impressive packaging designs
• dog illustrations
• childhood illustrations
• 3D illustrations
• book cover designs
• sunny digital artworks

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