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Creating a Native American design

Creating a Native American design - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

Creating a Native American design

(industrial sounds) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. I grew up in the pacific northwest and I absolutely love the artwork associated with the First Nation tribes. It's been a huge influence on me since I was a little kid, and in context of design, one could easily argue that it utilizes a graphic design sense before even modern-day graphic design was even coined. The image you see in front of you is of a tribe based out of Ketchikan, and this dates back to the early 1800s, but you can see the artwork that they would draw on their cedar houses, and this is something that I saw all the time whenever I went growing up, and here's another example of a pacific northwest tribe. You can see in the background here, once again, on their cedar house, this very graphic stylization, in this case, of a bird, and then they take that same sense of kind of graphic simplicity, and they take any kind of theme, in this case, a salmon, and they create this really cool…

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