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Creating with shapes

Creating with shapes - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating with shapes

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(industrial sounds) - [Instructor] Welcome to drawing vector graphics laboratory! Half the battle of building vector artwork is to be able to look at any drawn motif and recognize how you can simplify and accelerate the process by using shapes to construct elements in your design. So, let's take a look at how I did that in a project I recently worked on. So, this was my refined sketch for a little character icon that was part of a bigger project, and this was the effort of creating a search icon utilizing that character, and one of the design explorations utilized him holding this telescope. Now, as I approach any kind of project like this, this is a pretty simple illustration, and I could try to build it just like this, but it's going to make it a lot easier if I re-orient the art, and what I mean by that is I want to build this telescope in a linear fashion that's going to make it easier. Now, I'm going to show you one plugin that I use, and the cool thing about it is this plugin is…

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