From the course: Illustrator Draw: Working Mobile
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Layer strategies
- [Instructor] As you go on working inside this application, you're going to need to work out strategies for how you actually work. So for example, this illustration, which you might have seen pop up in a few other places inside of this title, has stacks and stacks of layers, in fact, if I go through there you can see there's an Image layer at the bottom, which is providing the background, and then there are several different Draw layers doing different things. If I come up to the Inking layer at the top here, and double tap on that, you can see that's all the coloring that's going on underneath, and the Inking layer brings all that together. And there are layers, for example, for the eyes, just there, and then there are layers that give the sort of eerie greenish highlights to the skin and the coat, and even the hair itself. If I just turn the hair off, if you look at the light gray in the background of the hair, I'll just zoom in to just make it easier for you to see, and double tap…
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