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Creating cut-paper illustration

Creating cut-paper illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating cut-paper illustration

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory In this movie I want to take a look at a very forgiving and easy illustration style that in my opinion anyone can pull off. I think you're going to enjoy this approach so let's get started. Now, when you approach illustration, it doesn't matter what the theme or what the genre is, think about the objects involved in pulling off the visual narrative you have to create. In this case, I need a tie so I'm looking at a reference of a tie and then I'm drawing it out in the most simple form of basic shapes that I could to reflect a tie. It doesn't have to be photorealistic. Anybody could draw what's shown here and when it comes to building it, it couldn't even be easier because I'm just going to simply select the pin tool, we'll go over to the graphics style, I'll select the base building, I like to use this magenta color and when I build shapes like this for this specific style, we're creating a look and feel that is cut paper. So…

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