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Detailing icons

Detailing icons - Illustrator Tutorial

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Detailing icons

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- [Instructor] The term detailing in context of icons, is a seemingly contradictory term. I'm not talking about realism, or over rendered, lickible icons, as we discussed previously, I'm talking about the subtle visual detail that improves iconic artwork without over-complicating the visual narrative. So let's take a look at how you can take flat base iconography and utilize simple methods to improve the final artwork. A while back, I worked with a client named Sonny, S-0-N-N-Y, he's a weather forecaster, and he wanted me to brand him, so this was one of the directions I created, and he didn't really go for it. I thought it was great but he didn't go for it. But, when you approach any project, you have to kind of have to art direct yourself. So there's various ways I could detail this or not detail this, and that all depends on context. So this version has some gradients applied to it. Very subtle gradients, not overly overt in how I used them, but very subtle. Whereas, when I remove…

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