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Creating loose-style icons

Creating loose-style icons - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating loose-style icons

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- [Instructor] When you mention icons in a design context, most people immediately think of the icons they interact with every day via software, but there are other forms of iconic artwork that utilize the same discipline of simplifying complex forms to produce easily recognizable imagery that aids and supports communication. So in this movie, we're going to create a loose-styled icon set using the Width tool. So with this project, it starts with reference. I'm doing icons to represent different cities across the globe, and this specific one is going to represent New York City. So we're using the Statue of Liberty as the iconic symbol to represent that. So looking at real-world references, regardless if you're developing a design in a realistic style, or in this case, an iconic style, is going to give you those cues to capitalize on to do it well. Now, this specific loose style is going to require what's called Contour Drawing, and Contour Drawing is easy to understand. You look at…

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