From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

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Creating elegant curves

Creating elegant curves

- Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. A lot of people struggle with creating elegant Bézier curves inside Illustrator. In short they struggle with conquering the pen tool. That's a pretty common problem. So in this movie I want to revisit some basics and demonstrate how I approach raw vector building to ensure my shape and form is elegant and precise. This isn't hard, this is just a matter of getting in the habit of working this way and over time you won't even think about it. You'll just do it. So we're going to build this graphic shown here. And once again drawing will facilitate digital because you want to know what you're going to build before you're going to build it. Otherwise you spend a lot of time spinning your wheels and wasting time, so work it out in drawn form. It doesn't need to be perfect because digital will allow you the tools to build it perfectly. But we're going to build this right here. So let's go ahead and zoom in. I'm going to start on the head here,…

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