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Creating surface textures

Creating surface textures - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating surface textures

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. If you've watched any of my DVG Labs or some of my other courses, you probably realize by now that I really like using textures in combination with vector graphics. It gives humanity to the stark, almost too perfect world that is vector-based graphics. So, in this movie I want to use a real world texture I captured with my iPhone while walking in downtown Portland, Oregon, Portlandia if you will, and apply it to some vector-based artwork. Now we're going to start off in Photoshop to create the texture, and then we're going to use that texture inside Illustrator and I think you're going to enjoy it. Now, the photo you see in front of you is the exact texture that I captured. It was on the side of this metal box on a wall, and it obviously had been peeled of paint, and so on and so forth, and weathered over the years, and it makes a great texture. So this is the starting point, and to create the real world texture, I composed…

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