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Creating interlocking motifs

Creating interlocking motifs - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating interlocking motifs

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that is poorly designed rather than trying to help the situation and improve it. of a raster image to produce a vector image. So, you get this kind of sloppy graphics. You get stuff like this, where you have this little sliver of a shape here. If we zoom in on this, de-select it, you can see how it's overlapping. Just really bad. You have some kind of stroke out here that doesn't even correspond to the edge of the shape underneath it. So really bad in terms of its craftsmanship, in terms of its shape and form, and probably the worst area here, this is really hard to believe, is the feet. I mean, really? This is the best you can do with our national symbol, the eagle? And this is the... It looks like poorly crafted tortilla shells or taco chips, or whatever. Just really bad. And so, I think we're going to be able to improve on all of this. The artwork is overly complicated, too, where it's that layering of feathers that you see on the legs. It's in a graphic representative form…

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