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Creating custom perspective guides

Creating custom perspective guides - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating custom perspective guides

In this final exercise I am going to show you how to create your own poor man's perspective grid. Now this is going to be of use to those of you who know a thing or two about perspective drawing. You're going to find this terribly helpful, I should think, I do, on a regular basis. Those of you who don't like perspective drawing or don't understand it, feel free to skip this exercise, although it's very easy to perform, the steps I'm about to show you. So you might want to hang in there, I'm going to go ahead and zoom out of my illustration. And by the way, I have saved my modifications as 3D rotations.ai. Now Illustrator CS5 includes a perspective grid tool that automates the process, and I've actually drawn a grid in advance, and you can check it out if you like by dropping down to this new tool here in side of Illustrator CS5. The perspective grid tool, which has a keyboard shortcut of Shift+P, and if you just click on that tool you'll see the perspective grid that I've set up for…

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