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Creating freeform gradients

Creating freeform gradients - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating freeform gradients

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(metal booming) (air whooshing) (metal clicking) - [Von] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. When it comes to new features in Adobe Illustrator, I tend to be an early adopter if for no other reason than to see how the new feature works, or to figure out how I might use it within the context of my own creative process if it's going to benefit me in any way, and ultimately, how the new feature behaves. If I like it, then sure, I'll start using it when appropriate. But in this movie, I'm going to show you how the Freeform Gradient feature works and how I used it to do a unique color exploration on a design I created for a friend. Now the specific design that I'm going to be creating in this move is for a friend who's appeared in a previous DVG Lab. I did one on stylizing the motif based off of an engraved look. And my friend, Dickie Adams, was the main theme of that design. He let me use his own persona to…

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