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Mirroring art for speed and accuracy

Mirroring art for speed and accuracy - Illustrator Tutorial

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Mirroring art for speed and accuracy

Earlier in this chapter, we spoke about different kinds of transformations and how they can help us work inside of Illustrator. Well, let's focus on one technique specifically which is actually reflecting or mirroring your artwork. And this could be great because when you are trying to get precise artwork done and you have a shape that you can actually just draw one-half of, it's much easier to simply copy or duplicate that other half to complete your drawing. For example, let's look at Mister Zee's head right here. You have two eyes, you have ears, you have stripes that are on one side of his face, you have nostril, right, you have the actual shape of his head. So if we just draw one side of his head, we can do half the work and then just simply flip the other side and create a mirror effect and complete the face. So not only does it take us half the time to draw the artwork, it also gives us a much more precise version of artwork as well. Now in the case the head here, let me share…

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