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Creating a perspective column

Creating a perspective column - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a perspective column

Now as you know much of the engineering that's associated with Illustrator CS5 happened in India and that holds true for everything about the Perspective Grid tool. So it's perhaps fitting that we end this chapter with this incredible rendering of the Taj Mahal which has to be the most impressive and ambitious thing I've seen done with this tool. It was created by this fellow named Anil, who is a member of the Illustrator Development Team. He has kindly offered for me to allow you to take a look at this file and play with it to your heart's content. Much of it was created using perspective grid and much of it was hand-created. In other words, designed with the help of the Pen tool and the White Arrow tool and all that jazz. Now what I am going to do, I am not going to show you how to create this entire thing. I'm just going to give you a sense of how this forward minaret was created. So if you scroll down the layers list here, you will see that most of the layers are locked and you…

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