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Drawing feathers

Drawing feathers - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing feathers

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- I'm really looking forward to finishing the build process out on this, so we can start exploring with color. That's going to be, in my opinion, the funnest part of this project, specifically, will be how we handle the color. But, the last part I need to go through is building out all the feathers. I'm just going to crank through this as fast as I can. In my opinion, these will be the easiest because there's not a whole lot of curves going on here. It's mostly just bending the path to form the curve that makes up the feathers. So, all of these will go pretty quick. How I'm going to handle this is I'm not going to bother messing with any of the Bézier curves until I have everything created in a rough format, as I'm doing here. This is normally how I do everything. I don't build the curves out, as you've seen me do in each iteration of each movie. We're just separating it out in a more digestible format. In this case, this shape here, I kind of need to do it for that one part. Other…

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