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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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- 07_Creating_Blended_Graphics.zip
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- 5_Creating_a_Photo_Collage.zip
- 6_Creating_with_the_Recolor_Tool.zip
- 7_Creating_Good_Fortune.zip
- 1_Creating_a_Looped_Design.zip
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- 4_Creating_a_Rock&Roll_Graphic.zip
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- 6_Creating_Without_Irradiation.zip
- 7_Recoloring_Digitally_Inked_Art.zip
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- 2_Creating_Flat_Vibrant_Art.zip
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- 4_Creating_an_Apparel_Graphic.zip
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- 1_Creating_Thick_&_Thin_Strokes.zip
- 2_Creating_with_Free_Transform.zip
- 3_Creating_a_Horror_Themed_Logo.zip
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Creating with opacity masks9m 38s
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Creating with shapes9m 48s
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Creating complex geometrics10m 28s
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Creating a contour illustration17m 41s
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Creating a Native American design17m 54s
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Creating a single-weight illustration16m 43s
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Creating an organic pattern brush11m 26s
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Creating cut-paper illustration9m 27s
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Creating ornamental art10m 35s
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Creating faces10m 26s
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Creating stylized clouds9m 11s
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Create a neon sign illustration13m 17s
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