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Creating ornamental art

Creating ornamental art - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating ornamental art

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. I need to warn you before you watch this, once you create one motif in the manner I'm going to show you, you'll want to create a whole lot more. This whole approach I started when I did my ornament book many years ago, and I was only supposed to create, like, 300 pieces of art for the book, and I ended up creating over a thousand. Why? Because it became addicting. It was so much fun. It's a fun way to create unique motifs, so let's get started, and walk through this process. It all comes down to simple math. What you see here is a drawing grid that I drew from to create all the ornaments in the book I put together. And most of it came down to just drawing a simple 1/8 piece of the artwork, and from that, it elaborated out into the full design. So this is where my drawing would start. And then as I start to build it, I'd use an actual vector grid that I would use to snap to it. Now, if I turn on this 1/8 art, you can see…

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