From the course: Illustrator for Non-Illustrators
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Drawing shading and highlights - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator for Non-Illustrators
Drawing shading and highlights
- [Male Instructor] In this movie, we'll put the finishing touches on our warrior character by enhancing shading, and drawing in highlights, so, this is where we've progressed so far and we're going to focus on bringing in some highlights to punch out areas. Now, if you're doing a traditional media drawing, let's say you actually laid down some base pigment with, let's say, a charcoal, or a colored pencil on an analog type of drawing, you would then go in using like a kneaded eraser and pull out highlights. Essentially, we're going to do the same, but we're going to do it digitally, and to do it digitally, instead of removing pigment with something like a kneaded eraser, we're going to actually paint it in with white using our brushes, and you can see some of them over here. Here's one that's very faint, it's a wash brush, here's another one, it's a little thicker, it's another wash brush but it has a hard edge set for 70%, and then this last one, once again, is a wash brush, this is…
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