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Creating a fat-line illustration

Creating a fat-line illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a fat-line illustration

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory, in this movie, I want to go over creating a fat line illustration. A fat line illustration is just that, it's nothing but line, we're not using fills, we're not using gradients, or any other kind of vector effect. It's simply creating a fat line stroke to form the overall illustration, and it's a beautiful aesthetic, when done well, and for this specific design, I'm going to focus on another bird theme, I love birds, and this one's going to be a toucan. Now when you're approaching something, it doesn't matter if you're doing something graphic, as you're going to see, my toucan drawing is very graphic, but I'm referring to the real thing, in order to capture the essence of what makes a toucan a toucan. If you look at his beak here, obviously the colors play a big part, but, in this case, we're using one color to pull of this design, not multiple colors, so we're not depending on the color, we're depending on…

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