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Creating iconic hands

Creating iconic hands - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating iconic hands

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. It's said that hands are one of the hardest things to draw. Personally, I find horses a lot harder in all honesty, but I digress. Some of you might get that reference. When it comes to creating iconic hands, I don't think it's that hard at all to create visuals that clearly communicate as hands. So in this movie we're gonna look at the process of taking a complex form, like a hand, and iconifying it into a more simplistic graphic. So let's get started. This shows many hands I created in a set of hands with all different poses of those hands, all the various iterations, there's just six of 'em. And I've used this styling on a lot of branded work. So I'm gonna show you several of those. Here's Keep Louisiana Beautiful exploration. I also did another one where the hand's making kinda the letter L with this same kinda leaves on the finger type approach. I used this same styling on another campaign to feed the hungry, and this…

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