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Painting for fun

Painting for fun - Illustrator Tutorial

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Painting for fun

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- I'm going to leave you with one more paint related project idea. This project involves painting a portrait of your favorite coffee mug or your favorite tea cup, and you're going to use the five colors of paint that we've talked about in this course. Primary Cyan, Primary Magenta, Primary Yellow, and Black and White, and any other painting supplies that you need. Why this project? Well, for starters is because most everyone has a favorite coffee mug, or a favorite tea cup, right? More importantly, this is a project that will bring together all the color theory and color ideas that we've been talking about throughout this course. By the way, this project, it should be fun too, and if at any point it starts feeling like something other than fun, you're probably not following my instructions closely enough so let me show you how this thing works. First, set up a space to paint. Then, choose your coffee mug or your tea cup, put it in place, and sketch it out. Be sure to use and accept…

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