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Establishing symbols for 3D art

Establishing symbols for 3D art - Illustrator Tutorial

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Establishing symbols for 3D art

As you may recall our final version of the apple at least inside of Illustrator looks like this and by the way the name of this file is 270-degree apple.ai and it's got all these really bright terrific plastiki highlights going on. It also has a stem and I've mapped the gradient onto the inside of the apple. By comparison, our current apple looks pretty drab, and I saved my progress as Fake-looking apple.ai. The first thing we're going to do is add the stem. So if you go to the LAYERS panel, twirl open the apple layer and you'll notice that I have two stem items up at top here; one stem stroke and I am going to go ahead and zoom-in on it, so we can see what's going on. I've assigned a variable with stroke to this path outline and the reason I did that was I wanted this stem to fold into the apple fairly naturalistically, so we didn't have too much in a way of big gaps going on. I guess I've got a tiny little gap at this point and I could fix that if I wanted to using the Width tool…

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