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Adding selective wrinkle lines - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Designing Your Own Online Avatar
Adding selective wrinkle lines
Alright, now at this point have a pretty idealized portrait of myself. I don't think anybody's going to have a problem with that, but it's a little too youthful. I'm 51 years old at this point. I've got a fair number of wrinkles, and so, we're going to go ahead and add some of those in, in order to create this effect here. And you can see that the wrinkle lines help to elevate the expressiveness of this caricature. So, I'll go ahead and switch back to my document so far. And I'm going to zoom in and, I need to switch back to the layers panel and turn on my photo layer, because I want to be able to trace it a little more. And I'll also press Ctrl+Y or Cmd+Y in a Mac. In order to switch to the outline mode. And, I'll go ahead and draw these lines using the pen tool. So I'll press the P key to switch to the pen, and then I'll drag from right about here, in order to create the first smooth point and I'll create another smooth point just under the crease, like so. And then I don't want to…
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