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Creating a pattern illustration

Creating a pattern illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a pattern illustration

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(gears grinding) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory If you've heard me speak before, or maybe you've read my book, Vector Basic Training, then you might already know that one of the hardest themes for me to create from, personally, or draw specifically, is horses. I'm not completely sure why, but they've always intimidated me. I've always struggled with pulling it off and doing it really well, so to help push my own comfort zone, if you will, I picked that as the visual theme for this design. Now, with that said, I'm going to show you how I took elegant shapes, simple patterns and textures, and created a uniquely styled design. So saddle up and let's get started. Because this is a theme that really kind of challenges me, I always like to get great reference, great reference images that I can look at and really study what makes a horse, uniquely a horse. What attributes are apparent in this animal that people can look at it in a graphic form and immediately…

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