Building base vector shapes: Part one - Illustrator Tutorial

As with every project it starts with a drawing, so what you see here is a refined sketch of this dog that's scratching himself. He's an, unhappy little dog, scratching himself and, I refine my sketches so it really removes the guesswork from building. So if I Zoom in on this, you can see that. I've defined exactly what I want these shapes to be, and what that's going to do now, it's going to assisted my Vector building. And on a project like this, I'm going to start, I usually start with the head, in this case I'm going to start with the nose. Actually before I start building that I do want to go to my Graphic Styles Panel. And you'll see I have two types of Styles initially in here. And these are just Magenta lines. I have this first one, we'll go ahead and create an Oval that will make up his nose. And this is the one style I use, and this is just simply a 0.5 stroke, and then if I clone this, Cmd + C, Cmd + F. Drag it over here. This other style I have is a 0.25 stroke, and I use…