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Creating long shadow icons

Creating long shadow icons - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating long shadow icons

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- [Instructor] As I stated previously, icon styles shift and change over time. Some styles trend, then after a while go away forever. Other styles appear and become very popular for a while, then fall out of fashion, only to reappear again later and have somewhat of a graphic revival. In this movie we're going to take a look at creating a style called long shadow icons. So let's get started. We're going to revisit this icon set based off of Star Wars, and this was my thumbnail sketch, and I created the base art as I showcased in a previous movie, and you saw how I went about building this base art. But we're going to use that same base art we created to restylize it to fit another aesthetic that looks really, really cool. So that's what we're going to do in this movie and it's going to be specifically this icon that I have sitting on top of a host shape, which is kind of like an app icon in terms of a rounded square corners and we're using a simple color palette of this base gold…

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