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Creating a linear portrait illustration

Creating a linear portrait illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

Creating a linear portrait illustration

(electronic sound effects) - [Instructor] Welcome to drawing vector graphics laboratory. In this movie, I want to go over creating a linear portrait illustration. It's also referred to as a continuous line illustration because essentially, as with this illustration, it's one single stroke line, if I go to keyline view, Command Y, you can see it's just one continuous path with a certain weight applied to this stroke. In this case it's a three point stroke as you can see here. And think of this style as taking a thread or a string or a noodle and laying it down on the ground and moving it and composing it in order to form the shape of the intended theme that you're working on. In this case, a face. It simply is that simple to compose. So, what's going to greatly assist in this process is going to pick a theme that you're going to enjoy working on. In this case, we're going to be creating a face, and you have to have reference, so I'm going to show you my reference for the one I'm going…

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