From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

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Creating a farm logo

Creating a farm logo

(intense, enthusiastic music) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. Not all designs have to be drawn out in order to create them. Sometimes good reference can assist in a graphics creation. In this movie, we'll take our style cues from a retro tractor in order to figure out what to create with basic shapes and build methods. So let's get started. Now, in Oregon every year, they have this festival where all of these retro farm equipment is, they kind of do this small little parade out on this giant farm. And a lot of these old steam tractors are brought in, it's pretty cool. And this is one of the retro tractors. This dates back to the early 40s I believe. And I just thought it'd be a perfect example of how you can take a photographic reference and you could create a graphic from it. So the first thing we're gonna do is convert this to a gray scale image. And then simply using simple shapes, rectangles and circles, we can start immediately composing what we…

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