From the course: Draw Better and Faster with Illustrator CC
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Contour lines and opacity masks - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Draw Better and Faster with Illustrator CC
Contour lines and opacity masks
In this movie, I'll show you how to create these multiline highlights over on the left hand of the ampersand. Which are interesting in that they require more complex applications of the tools that we've seen so far. So I'll go ahead and switch over to my document in progress here. And then, I'll grab my pen tool. Which I can get of course by pressing the p key. And I'm going to go ahead and establish some default attributes by changing the Fill up here in the control panel to None. And I'll change the Stroke to White. And I'll reduce my Line Weight value to 0.5 points. And I'll click on the word Stroke and assign both a Round Cap and a Round Joint. All right, next what you want to do if you are working along with me is click with the pen tool in order to set an anchor point right about there. Should work nicely. And then, I'll set another corner point right at this location. And another corner point right there. So we have a total of three corner points in all that are describing a…
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Drawing a base polygon with the Pen tool3m 9s
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Adding curves and smooth points7m 42s
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Beveling and enhancing the artwork9m 53s
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Tweaking a design with the Pencil tool4m 6s
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Drawing multiple lines at a time9m 38s
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Contour lines and opacity masks9m 17s
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Creating an intricate engraving effect7m 21s
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Creating an engraved drop shadow5m 26s
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