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Creating drop shadow effects

Creating drop shadow effects - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating drop shadow effects

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. I received an email asking me how would I use drop shadows on an illustrated project? Well truth be told, most often I use drop shadows in a very subtle way, but in this movie I'm going to demonstrate how you could use drop shadows in a more overt manner to create a unique depth to a design, so let's get started. For me, the process always starts in analog, whether it's a thumbnail rough sketch like shown in here, and then I just take vellum on a light pad I use next to my computer, I put it on there and on that I draw with a mechanical pencil to really work out a more precise drawing to help guide my vector building as I move to Illustrator. Now this doesn't have to be iron clad perfect because many times I'll change it as I go along. But in this case my thinking is I want all of the negative shapes, these shapes in between like the feathers here and the eye…

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