From the course: Illustrator for Non-Illustrators
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Light, shadow, tone, and texture - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator for Non-Illustrators
Light, shadow, tone, and texture
- [Instructor] In this movie we'll look at various ways you can draw to create detailing, like highlights and shadows, tone and texture in your drawings. In this movie, we'll review nine methods of drawing. Now, of course, this isn't an exhaustive reference because there's many other ways you can choose to draw, but it's going to serve as a good foundation to build upon, so let's get started. Now, the ones that I want to review quickly here are these nine, and I'm going to draw out a few of these using this brush right here. And I have this right here, so you can select it and it will preload all the settings. You can see we have a profile set, it's Inking 5 brush which is right here in the brushes palette, and it also makes it multiply. This specific brush is gray, if we go to color, you can see it's at a 15% of black, and that's what we want. So with that set, we can select our paintbrush tool right here, and we're going to draw with this. So the first one is just simple line…
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