From the course: Illustrator: Tracing Artwork
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Refine paths with strokes and widths - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Tracing Artwork
Refine paths with strokes and widths
- [Instructor] Now that we've got our sketch all cleaned up and hopefully you've added some of the basic details like you see over here on the right, now it's time to start finishing that up and adding in a lot of the detail that we need to add to it to make it look like more like the sketch we have over here on the right, and if you look at mine, I've got a little bit of extra work maybe than what you did in yours previously and that's okay. That's why I created this file for you so you could keep up. If I take a look over here on the Layers panel, you'll notice that inside of the tracing layer, if I turn off the original, you can see all of the different things that I've applied to this, and basically what we're going to do is we're going to be able to recreate a lot of what's happening on the left over here on the right simply by using fills and strokes and different brushes. So let me go ahead and get started and show you exactly how I would do this. I'll zoom in a little bit and…
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