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Creating a single-weight illustration

Creating a single-weight illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a single-weight illustration

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. Not everything I create is client-driven. I try to show examples of real-world projects when I can, but some of my most favorite artwork is personal projects. I love reading, and have been enjoying the work of author C. J. Box recently. In one of his novels, he talks about a group of men who were stealing and selling minerals from Yellowstone Park, and he referred to them as the Pirates of Yellowstone. This story inspired the design I want to walk you through now. And sometimes that's all it takes, is something that makes me smile, something I enjoy, and I decide "Hey, I'm going to create something "based off of that, because I think it's fun." And so this shows my thumbnail sketch to encapsulate kind of the idea of what I wanted to create for this design. I wanted to keep this very simple, a very thin line type of illustration, but kind of have fun with it, and treat it almost as if I was creating a t-shirt graphic, if you…

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