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Creating traditional tattoo art

Creating traditional tattoo art - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

Creating traditional tattoo art

- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. Design is style-driven. Many in our industry still hold to a view that we all should have our own signature style we are recognized for. I think it's fine to have one or more favorites but style, in my opinion, should always be dictated by the given client product or service it's being used for. So I like to explore styles, try new styles and in this movie we're going to take a stab at creating traditional-looking tattoo art in vector form. It all starts with reference and these are reference images of the specific style we're going to approach in this movie. And when you look at this traditional-based tattoo style, there's certain characteristics that are going to give us clues as to how to pull this off in vector form. Now some of the stylistic references in this style that I really like is how black will be fused to the outline color black and then it kind of fades out into either the background color or a lighter color.…

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