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Creating chrome surfaces

Creating chrome surfaces - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating chrome surfaces

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. When I attended art school I had an airbrushing class. We had to purchase an actual airbrush and a small compressor and you would fill it with ink and create masks using this thin film called frisket and then you would airbrush your design or illustration onto the surface of the illustration board. Now one of the first assignments was to create chrome typography. So in this movie I'm revisiting the same theme several decades later, that kind of ages me there, and we'll do the same thing with greater ease and control inside of Illustrator using vector-based artwork. So let's jump into this and have some fun. This is fun. It's kind of fun revisiting this type of theme. I haven't done this since art school, so it kind of brought back a lot of goofy memories from art school days. I wanted to do custom typography. When you work in chrome I think big, bold, beefy kind of letterforms work better, because there's a larger surface…

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