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Creating a stained glass illustration

Creating a stained glass illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

Creating a stained glass illustration

(gear clicking) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie, I want to take you through the process of creating a stained glass illustration. The obvious inspiration behind this is stained glass. Most of you have probably seen this if you've gone into any kind of cathedral, and this photograph that you can see here is kind of the aesthetic I want to attempt to achieve using both Illustrator and a few things in Photoshop that we'll then bring back into Illustrator and apply. And it's a fun project. I kind of did some exploration here and wasn't sure if I was going to even be able to pull this off and I was kind of pleasantly surprised and I think you will be, too. So this is where it started, looking at a photograph of a real stained glass piece of artwork and now trying to replicate that via a vector illustration. So it all starts off where all of my projects start, in a drawing stage. So this is my symmetric drawing, I only drew half of it because then…

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