From the course: Creating a Hand-Drawn Type Portrait
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Cleaning up vector artwork - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Hand-Drawn Type Portrait
Cleaning up vector artwork
- We've now taken our raw artwork created on the iPad using Adobe Draw and we've brought that into Illustrator now, and before I begin to explore any type of colorization, I need to clean up this artwork. Frankly speaking, there's way too many anchor points, and I need to point out a few things because it's somewhat of a contradiction in terms of digital workflow. Adobe obviously wants you to draw out in a vector form using Adobe Draw, but when you push it to Illustrator, it adds so many anchor points that frankly it's almost unusable. So you really need to clean it up. Now the problem with that is inside Illustrator, there is no easy way to do that, and I'm going to demonstrate that in a little bit. But I need to first show you the problem we have. And if one thing that's going to resolve this problem, because Adobe lacks any functionality to assist us in removing anchor points without destroying our artwork, we're going to have to turn to a plugin created by another developer, in…
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