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Creating a pattern brush shading

Creating a pattern brush shading - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a pattern brush shading

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(zooming) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie, I want to go over creating pattern brush shading. This is a style of shading that is popular in illustration circles and it involves using a nice course speckling to pull off shading detail like that shown in the illustration you see here. I created this for Adobe. And this isn't hard to do once you know the basics. I want to review this process. I've covered this in a larger context of a bigger course but it was just one movie and sometimes it's hard to find that content specifically. I want to focus on just that specific task and really nail it down so it's easy for people to discern and then that way you can apply it to your own projects. And it's not hard. It's a lot of fun. And the look and feel is absolutely awesome once you can get this process down. This is one of my all time favorite illustrations, by the way. I want to go over the whole process of using pattern brushes. And first off, just…

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