From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

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Creating authentic graphics

Creating authentic graphics

- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. Most design and illustration I create isn't realistic in style, but sometimes I want to capture an authentic aesthetic in order to improve a design or a concept. In this movie we'll once again combine vector-based artwork with raster-based textures to achieve a better creative solution, so let's get started. Now for this project I need to create a tire tread motif that I could use in the design concept that I came up with and so I don't know a whole lot about automobiles in general, let alone tires, so this is where reference comes it, it's to reference the real thing. Not that we're going to create a photorealistic image, we're not, but this will guide us and give us some cues as to how we can handle creating a tread in a graphic sense. So I look at tires, I see that they have things like zig-zag lines, and if you look at the edge they have little notches going in, and connection lines between segmented shapes. So those…

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